Last chance for Gallery 32's annual Winter Sculpture Park in the 'former golf course at Thamesmead on selected dates (closes April 26)

Roundhouse Three Sixty: a month of music, spoken word, theatre, visual arts, podcasts, and club nights (April 1-30)

Wandsworth's year as London's Borough of Culture begins in April with events all over the borough - look for events on WelcometoWandsworth.com

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)

One week to go: the London Handel Festival celebrates the great composer and naturalised Brit at events, concerts and workshops across several venues (ends April 10)

Pretty as a picture: 'Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture' runs at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea (to May 5)

The National Gallery's dazzling new show 'Siena - The Rise of Painting - 1300-1350' is full of gold and exquisite painting by Sienese artists and the artists they influenced (until June 22)

Kensington Palace explores the coding involved in royal fashion over the centuries in it's newly-opened show 'Dress Codes' (until Nov 13)

Tate Modern's new show is on Ed Atkins, the British artist who has spent his career probing the gap between digital and human in the form of computer generated artworks and videos (Apr 2 to Aug 25)

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

Also at the Natural History Museum is the opening of a new gallery 'Failing Our Broken Planet', in which contemporary science explores topics that affect all of us, from food to energy consumption (opens April 3)

For two days only, Brew London takes over the linear space between Westminster and Waterloo Bridges for a jolly old craft drinks festival by the river (April 10-12)

'The Edwardians: Age of Elegance', another excellent exhibition from the Royal Collections Trust, lands in the King's Gallery at Buckingham Palace (Apr 11 to Nov 23)

Last chance for the Science Museum's new show 'Versailles: Science and Spendour', focusing on the key role the great French palace played in scientific thinking (to April 21)

Feast your eyes on 350 pieces of classic, stunning jewellery in the Cartier Exhibition at the V&A in South Kensington (opens Apr 12)

Art and tech before the internet takes centre stage at Tate Modern, from Op Art to the Nineties (closes 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 (until October 26)

The Sony World Photography Awards exhibition runs for three weeks in both wings of Somerset House, with 300 images shot by over 60 photographers (Apr 11 to May 5)

Quick: last chance to enter the beguiling, multi-faceted world of director and creative original Tim Burton at the Design Museum in Kensington (until Apr 21)

Spend the afternoon celebrating the feast day of St George, our patron saint (who was in fact Turkish and who took over from our original national saint, Edward) in Trafalgar Square (from 12 noon, Apr 23)

'Multitudes' is a new arts festival 'powered by orchestral music' opening at the South Bank Centre (Apr 23 to May 3)

Yay, Shakespeare's Globe opens for its summer season on April 3, joining its sister theatre, the Wannamaker Playhouse, already up and running with the Three Sisters and Cymbeline. Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet incoming....

History nuts! Make for the British Library for this HISTFEST 2025 weekend of history talks and discussions on subjects from Jane Austen to Mesopotamia (Apr 26/27)

Hats away: turn up at Minerva Square, SE1 (near Southwark Cathedral), at 2 pm on April 27 - wearing your best tifter, obviously - for a Sunday promenade through South London

The TCS London Marathon, almost 45 years old, starts in Southwark with the elite wheelchairs at 8.30 am, followed by elite runners and the general runners at 9.35 am. Ends at Buckingham Palace. (April 27)