Culture House is the first permanent exhibition space for Somali artefacts curated by the Somali community.

Freehaus Design, 1

The George Padmore Institute is located on Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, in a Victorian terrace property which also houses New Beacon Books. Co- founded in 1991 by John La Rose and Sarah White, we are an archive and educational hub home to materials on the lives of black communities in post-war Britain. We invite the public to explore our history and handle some of our archival material.

Kensington and Westminster represent wealth and privilege, yet their northern edges tell a different story. Here poverty and poor conditions have stood in contrast to the affluence just a few miles south. This tour explores these working class areas through a housing lens. It considers commercial endeavour, the ideals of modernism, community activism and the ongoing search for housing solutions.

Join John Grindrod, author of 'Iconicon' and 'Concretopia', on a walk around the endless rebuilding of Croydon town centre.

Join us to explore the newly reopened Seven Sisters market and surrounding area. Known as a hub for North London’s Latin American community, the market has been closed since 2021 whilst the site has been undergoing development. The reopening of this site in June 2025 gives us a great opportunity to gather together, remember the history of the market and collectively imagine its future.

Join a captivating journey through the City of London with our exclusive Muslim Heritage Tour. Discover the deep connections of Salahuddin Ayubi and marvel at the UK's oldest Muslim statues, dating back 1000 years. Uncover the legacy of England’s most famous Middle Eastern immigrant and delve into fascinating tales of crime and health in history.

Built 1971-74 in brutalist style, POSK is the largest Polish centre in Western Europe. It contains a theatre, the Polish Library, the Polish University Abroad, a Joseph Conrad collection, Jazz Café with regular live concerts, art gallery, and art collection on public display.

M. F. Grzesik, 1971

Queer Britain is the UK’s permanent museum of LGBT History. Housed in a converted Victorian office building in the heart of the regenerated King’s Cross area, the galleries are a riot of voices and objects from over 100 years of queer history. At Open House 2025, Queer Britain’s volunteer guides will give talks demonstrating the museum’s mission to reclaim, preserve and inspire LGBTQ+ history.

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Launched on 24th April 2025, Regent’s Park Estate Story Trail is an exciting new resident-led socially engaged public art trail through Regent’s Park Estate, Euston. The trail encompasses 12 site-specific art installations created by 10 artists and collectives, bringing 28 new public artworks to Regent's Park Estate.

This multi-use community space provides a combined library and heritage service. Visitors will enjoy unique access to the borough’s historic collections alongside a state-of-the-art library with a range of meeting and study spaces.

AOC Architecture Ltd., 2020

For hundreds of years, Spitalfields has been a place where those seeking safety, work, and community have settled. They all leave their mark in streets buildings in an area rich in history and architectural interest.

Collectarium and Peter Maloney build on their Lockdown Space Collection which invited people to post images and films online that shared how they had adapted, re-imagined, transformed and expanded their home environment during lockdown. This exhibition spatially reframes and recontextualises the collection to critically reconsider the ideal home in our increasingly unsettled times.

Practice Architecture, 2011