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Sophie Campbell
Guide, writer and contributor to national travel pages. Lives and works in the capital. Likes long walks.
It's May in London!
'Michelangelo - The Last Decades' has opened at the British Museum with a stunning collection of drawings and studies (until July 28)
You know it's summer when Between the Bridges takes over the Queen's Walk, Southbank, with club nights, DJs, drag artists, food, fun and free entry to the main area every night (until Sept 1).
That perennial summer favourite (take a sweater) The Regent's Park Open Air Theatre reopens on May 2 starting with Twelfth Night and ending with Fiddler on the Roof (until Sept 30)
Snap! The World Press Photo Exhibition is at Borough Yards May 3 to 27. Tickets from £5.
'Light into Life' is a show by Marc Quinn, with 17 extraordinary steel and bronze sculptures by dotting Kew Gardens from May 4 alongside his exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery.
Shakespeare's Globe is now open for the summer season, with 'Romeo & Juliet' and 'Much Ado' first up.
The Affordable Art Fair rolls into the Lower Fairground on Hampstead Heath May 8-12, buy tickets online.
The Future of Money - from gold bars to crypto - is at the Bank of England Museum until September.
Time flies: 'Zimingzhong', a free exhibition of the beautiful clockwork automata collected by Chinese emperors, runs at the Science Museum until June 2
Happy 200th Birthday, National Gallery! Make for Trafalgar Square on April 10 to see fireworks kicking off a celebration weekend of art, with lightshows on the facade 9-10pm May 10 and 11.
The art theme continues in south east London with the opening of the Dulwich Festival with arts-themed events, walks and talks May 10-19.
The hugely popular 'Legion - Life in the Roman Army' is at the British Museum until June 23
Hot! The V&A's exhibition on post-colonial West African and Indian architecture, Tropical Modernism, runs throughout the London summer (until September)
May 12 sees Covent Garden fill up with Punch & Judy professors and puppets of every stripe for the May Fayre and Puppet Festival based around St Paul's Church
The Yoko Ono show at Tate Modern sheds light on the amazing career of a woman often overshadowed by her famous husband (until September 1)
Kensington Palace turns the spotlight on itself and its staff over the past 300 years in a show called 'Untold Lives' (until October 27)
An incredible array of talented makers take over venues across the capital for five days of London Craft Week (May 15-19)
Sands without End - dogs and people welcome at Neverland's Fulham Beach Club - general entry free, or book yourself a pergola sofa or a beach hut!
Food, music, talks and workshops take over the Greenwich Peninsula for the Urban Village Fete on May 19 from 11 am 'til late.
Another hardy perennial is the much-loved Holland Park Opera Festival, with an open-air auditorium, picnics and opera in sylvan surroundings (May 28 to Aug 10)
Hide or ride on May 26 as London braces for the biggest cycle ride of the year, Ride London, with a 100-mile circular route out into countryside and cheering crowds in town.
Don't miss
See the new Blavatnik Art, Film & Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, free. Image @iwmart3062
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