Gallery 32 presents the annual Winter Sculpture Park in the 'naturally rewilded' former golf course at Thamesmead on selected dates until April 26

Throughout March, Literary Footprints is offering walks and tours across London for those of literary bent

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian PhD, founder of NASA’s International Space Orchestra, lights up the West End for three nights in Art After Dark: Piccadilly Un:Plugged(March 6-8)

The charming Charles Dickens Museum on just as charming Doughty Street celebrates its 100th birthday with an exhibition on his life and work (throughout 2025)

Dance satellite Sadler's Wells East is open! Visit the first venue to open on the new East Bank, at the southern end of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.

The Other Art Show gives indie artists a chance to showcase their work at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane (March 6 to 9)

The London Handel Festival celebrates the great composer and naturalised Brit at events, concerts and workshops across several venues (March 7 to April 10)

The Post Office Museum has opened ‘Sorting Office’, an exhibit of mail art curated by artist Gestures, with works by Gilbert & George, Lolly Batty and Joseph Beuys (to April 4)

'Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture' opens at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea (to May 5)

The National Gallery's new show 'Siena - The Rise of Painting - 1300-1350' from March 8 to June 22

Kensington Palace explores the coding involved in royal fashion over the centuries in 'Dress Codes' (March 30 to November 13)

Leafy Barnes loves its music and its annual Barnes Music Festival runs from March 15 to 30, with opera, jazz, classical, contemporary, instrumental, choral and film.

Entries to much-loved Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition are on show at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington until next June.

Kew Gardens collaborates with the Royal College of Music to celebrate the arrival of spring using student compositions (March 15 to April 6)

Last chance for 'Picasso: Printmaker' at the British Museum - closes Mar 30.

BFI Flare, the London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, runs at BFI Southbank March 19 to 30

The Science Museum's new show 'Versailles: Science and Spendour' focuses on the key role the great French palace played in scientific thinking (to April 21)

A century of gorgeousness (1560-1660) is on show at the V&A in 'Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence'.

The Head of the River Race has been going since the 1920s and is one of London's great river spectacles, with 400 eights rowing from Mortlake to Putney over a 4.5 mile course (March 22, starting gun 3.15 pm)

Art and tech before the internet takes centre stage at Tate Modern, from Op Art to the Nineties (to Jun 1)

'Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur' features 40 new works on display in the august, but oddly cool, surroundings of the Wallace Collection on Manchester Square (March 28 to October 26)

The long-awaited Leigh Bowery show at Tate Modern celebrates the firework life of the Aussie fashion force, nightclub owner and joyous friend and performer, who blew London away during the 80s until his untimely death from HIV-AIDS.

Enter the beguiling, multi-faceted world of director and creative original Tim Burton at the Design Museum in Kensington - the show runs until Apr 21 2025