New stuff in london

How new?

Abba Voyage London.

The Alchemist bar, St. Martin's Lane.

Emirates Stadium, New White Hart Lane, or Olympic Stadium to see a football match.

• Have you been to the Queen's Jubilee at Westminter Abbey. It was outstanding. Unfortunately you have to buy a ticket to the Abbey to get entrance to the new museum.
• Tickets go on sale soon for the Bayeaux Tapestry Exhibition that starts this Fall at the British Museum. Whoops, just reread your post, you're there next week.
• Is the new London Museum open or is that next year?
• The Frameless Art Museum looks kind of cool.
• A daytrip to Norwich for the newly renovated castle?

This exhibit is open and looks wonderful!

https://www.rct.uk/collection/exhibitions/queen-elizabeth-ii-her-life-in-style/the-kings-gallery-buckingham-palace

The V&A East Storehouse (free admission) opened last May and was a terrific way to spend a few hours with surprisingly interesting displays:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/east/storehouse/visit

Perhaps going to Hampstead or Richmond appeals. Lots to see and do in both locations.

Maybe give us an idea of what you've already seen because I'm struggling to imagine that you've really seen "all" the attractions :). I've been visiting London for 50 years (and I'll be there next week as it happens), in recent times 3-4 times a year, and I'm certainly yet to see everything.

Also, what interests you? London has literally hundreds of small museums, ranging from the Florence Nightingale Museum to the Freud Museum. Numerous markets, LOTS of parks (not just the big ones), many, many churches big and small (Southwark Cathedral is lovely, for example, and you can even attend a service at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace), I could go on...

And then there are rhe neighbourhoods: the suggestion above of Hampstead is a good one. Also, while you're a week early for the Chelsea Flower Show, it's worth a walk down the Kings Road - lots of shops have will have floral decorations up. I also like Marylebone for more of a neighbourhood feel.

Battersea Power Station Conversion
The new V & A
Visit a different neighborhood like Nunhead or Brixton or Shoreditch or Hackney.
Have you seen the Hunterian Museum or Steam and Water Museum or Postal Museum or ???
Taken any of the London Walks? www.walks.com

Been going to London since Nixon was in office. Always find somewhere new to explore and enjoy.

On one visit, we went to the little Foundling Museum. We stopped by when we were in that area for the Charles Dickens museum and one of our stops at the British Museum.

I agree with Simon, there are so many things to do/see here! If you tell us what interests you we can help. If you mean new as in things that are newly open, the main ones lately are Battersea Power Station, V&A Storehouse, and V&A East. The new Museum of London mentioned above hasn't reopened yet. The new House of Illustration (now called Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration) will be opening on 5 June so you might miss that. If you want some niche ideas go to Ian Visits and check the calendar: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/

There are also some recently renovated areas of museums you may have been to, for example at the V&A the rooms with gold, silver, and mosaics have just reopened: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/gilbert-collection

Cat VH mentions the original Victoria & Albert Museum - an old institution, but there’s always something new.

CWsocial mentioned the the V&A East Storehouse, open for just a year, and we visited it back in December. Really interesting place, with lots of furniture pieces that couldn’t fit in the original V&A, plus lots of surprises. The main museum is free (backpacks and purses have to be stored in a free locker), but there’s also a David Bowie mini-museum inside the museum, which has an entry fee.

Claudia mentioned the “new” V&A, which is actually the V&A East Museum, just down the street (well, a 13 minute walk) from the V&A East Storehouse. We tried to go there in December, and were surprised to find d that it hadn’t yet opened. Even security guards in the building next door had no idea that it wasn’t open yet.

And darrenblois mentioned the Abba Voyage London, which is only about a mile south of those two newest V&A museums, although on the other side of the former Olympic (now a soccer) Stadium, and retail road tracks beyond that.

Both the V&A East and the Storehouse are in the Hackney Wick part of London, where the 2012 Sumner Olympic Games were held. Although that was a while ago, have you been to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park? It’s been redeveloping over the last 14 years, so it’s a pretty “New Thing!”

V&A East is now open. I haven't been yet, but it is definitely worth checking out as something brand new.

London Museum, formerly known as The Museum of London, is due to open at the new Smithfield location in Clerkenwell at some indeterminate time at the end of this year. I don't know if all is on schedule.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/east/museum/visit?

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/smithfield/

I went to V&A East Storehouse 2 months ago. Enjoyed seeing the Hackney Wick neighborhood. Liked the concept of the museum but only stayed an hour.

In the past week, in the Wall Street Journal there was a rather unenthusiastic review of the just opened V&E East museum.

If you like high viewpoints try the Sky Garden and Lift 101 at Battersea Power Station.

We were in London two weeks ago. Our Saturday Parliament tour was cancelled last minute so we went in a completely different direction and saw David Bowie: You Are Not Alone at the Lightroom King’s Cross. For those of us of a certain age, it was quite nostalgic and fun. The neighborhood around the Lightroom was also fun to explore on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Just announced this morning - a new Beatles Museum at their former headquarters on Savile Row -https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86dp2w0zygo. Due to open sometime in 2027 but rather unusually you can register your interest in tickets from today.

Bold Tendencies opens for the summer this weekend. Here's an article in today's Guardian about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/may/12/bold-tendencies-car-park-that-changed-british-art