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Barbican Centre

 (18 Ratings)

Major arts destination

An impressive if infuriatingly convoluted brutalist-style arts complex, the Barbican Centre (opened in 1982) was...

East London · Silk St, London


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Whitechapel Gallery

 (7 Ratings)

The East End's original art gallery

Less critical to the local Whitechapel community than it once was, the publicly funded Whitechapel Gallery nevertheless...

East London · 80 Whitechapel High St, London


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Museum of the Home (formerly Geffrye Museum)

 (3 Ratings)

Gays love decor

An East London museum in a category of its own, chronicling the changing style of the English domestic interior...

East London · 136 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, London


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Sky Garden (at 20 Fenchurch St aka the Walkie Talkie)

 (1 Rating)

Atop the Walkie-Talkie

One of London's more maligned skyscrapers, the so-called Walkie-Talkie (20 Fenchurch St) devotes its top three...

East London · 20 Fenchurch St, The City, London


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Rich Mix Cultural Foundation

 (1 Rating)

Indie and arty

Independent arts venue in a former East London leather factory,with spaces for creative businesses, three cinemas and...

East London · 35 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London


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Dennis Severs' House

 (1 Rating)

Olde-worlde residence that survives as a theatrical museum piece

An inventively nostalgic, precious and singular London experience in which the visitor quietly wanders from room to...

East London · 18 Folgate St, Spitalfields, London


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Bishopsgate Institute

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Documenting the LGBTQ world

A cultural institution started in 1895 and which now holds a substantial collection of LGBTQ-related materials...

East London · 230 Bishopsgate, London


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Close-Up Film Centre

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Serious about film culture

An east London specialist film centre that "aims to make film culture and history accessible" through its cinema,...

East London · 97 Sclater St, Shoreditch, London


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Thames Barrier Park

 (1 Rating)

Out-of-the-way park worth venturing east for

Opened in 2000, this Anglo/French venture by landscape architect Allain Provost and London architects Patel Taylor...

East London · North Woolwich Rd, Silvertown, London


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Victoria Miro

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Big contemporary art gallery showcasing big names

Victoria Miro has launched the careers of several internationally renowned artists, and her move east from Mayfair to...

East London · 16 Wharf Rd, Islington, London


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