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The CultureLine Summer Discovery weekend has just been announced for the 6-8 August. Whether it is exhibitions, costumed characters, guided walks, or live music that takes your fancy, the weekend is the perfect excuse to take a trip along the East London Line and to discover a new part of London. From natural history to local history, international contemporary art to engineering masterpieces, there are events for all interests and ages.
The action-packed weekend will kick off with a preview event at the Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday 5 August - a talk on Alice Neel: Painted Truth - the first major retrospective of the influential painter, featuring a portrait of Andy Warhol previously unseen in the UK. Further highlights include:
- See George Washington’s false teeth and find out more about the Elephant Man at the Royal London Hospital Museum
- Get hands on at BodyTalk, an exhibition for all the family featuring installations created by East London artists at Hackney Museum
- Explore the inventive ways in which the suffragettes used the postal system during their campaign for the vote at Fe:MAIL: Suffragettes and the Post at the Women’s Library
- Celebrate the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ during the Thames Tunnel Fancy Fair at the Brunel Museum
- Enjoy live music from Caribbean Steel International and garden games from Victorian times to the present day at the Geffrye Museum
- Join the Horniman Museum for Africa Live! and immerse yourself in a continent of culture, music, food and drink
- Go on a guided tour of one of London’s most iconic lost buildings, the Crystal Palace, with the Crystal Palace Museum
A full list of events can be seen below - or visit our events section to search for individual events.
Hackney Museum Come explore the stories of Hackney over the past 1,000 years. A lively and fun place for children to visit, with lots of 'hands-on' activities.
Exhibitions
BodyTalk
Brain Boxes & Boundless Books
Geffrye Museum Go through the keyhole and see inside the English home across the centuries – enjoy a weekend of craft, music and games within the elegant setting of 18th century almshouses with award winning gardens.
Exhibitions, tours and events
Movers and Shakers
Visit the Geffrye’s restored 18th-century almshouse
Marvellous Greenhouse Masks
Make Your Own
Family Day - Garden Games
The Women’s Library A fascinating treasure trove celebrating women's lives in the bustling heart of East London – come see how the women’s liberation movement used the Government’s own tools of oppression to lead the struggle.
Exhibitions
Out of the Archives
Fe:MAIL: Suffragettes and the Post
The Royal London Hospital Museum Not for the squeamish, this gem has exciting features include sections on Joseph Merrick (the ‘Elephant Man’), and original material on the Whitechapel (Jack the Ripper) murders – along with George Washington’s false teeth!
Exhibitions
Mona Grey Gallery
Wesley’s Chapel Take a stroll around Bunhill fields – resting place of the William Blake and Daniel Defoe - and visit the home of John Wesley one of the finest surviving small Georgian townhouses in London to discover the origins of the worldwide Methodist movement.
Whitechapel Gallery Start the weekend early with a gallery talk – or explore the world-class exhibits of contemporary art at the East End gallery that continues to be a favourite for culture vultures and hipsters alike.
Exhibitions and events
Gallery Talk: Daniel Herrman on Alice Neel: Painted Truths
The Bloomberg Commission: Claire Barclay: Shadow Spans
Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: Act 1: The Corporeal: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection
Alice Neel: Painted Truths
John Latham: Anarchive
Brunel Museum Join the Brunel Museum and local children as they recreate the celebrations the greeted the opening of the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ – Brunel’s Thames Tunnel.
Events
Thames Tunnel Fancy Fair
Museum of Croydon Think you know Croydon? Discover Croydon’s hidden history, through the objects and stories of local people and take part in an interactive exhibition exploring creative recycling from around the globe.
Exhibitions
Treasures from Trash
Horniman Museum With its 16 acres of stunning gardens, a day of African celebrations, not to mention the unicorns and dragons the Horniman brings out the explorer in everyone. A whole world of culture in Forest Hill.
Exhibitions and events
Coal, Frankincense and Myrrh
Allotment Life
Myths and Monsters
Tuareg: People of the Veil
Family Art Fun on the Nature Trail
Hands On
Africa Live!
Discovery For All
Crystal Palace Museum Take a leisurely guided walk around the site of the Crystal Palace to hear the story of the Victorian marvel that captured the world’s imagination.
Tour
Guided Walk of the Crystal Palace site
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