Not sure what to do in London?

Explore the life and imagination of the Queen of Crime through personal letters, notebooks, manuscript drafts, recordings, photographs and objects including Christie’s typewriter and material connected to her most famous mysteries.

Discover the real and imagined London that shaped Charles Dickens, through atmospheric displays and objects including his walking stick, the manuscript for Oliver Twist, an original sketch of Fagin and a childhood doorknocker.

Indian classical music takes over the Barbican through concerts, talks, a pop-up bazaar, documentary screenings, masterclasses, meditation, breathwork and yoga accompanied by live music.

More than 45 artworks, photographs, films, objects and oral histories reveal how artists recorded wartime London, from Tube shelters and damaged docks to displacement, shortages and the resilience of everyday Londoners.