Events by type: Family Events

Events by type

3 June10.00am - 6.00pmVauxhall Pleasure

GardensSE11 5HY

free admission

Memory MonstersPidgin PerfectFor one Saturday in June the Memory Monsters will make Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens their lair. Join them as they roam the gardens to seek out memories of London’s changing landscape. The design of the Memory Monsters will illustrate the challenges fundamental to the changing face of London. Taking on the guise of familiar local landmarks, a ‘rumpus’ of monsters will inhabit this key civic space, bringing an out of the ordinary spectacle to Vauxhall.

1 - 25 JuneDuke of York Square, Design Museum and

Tavistock Road Squarefree admission

SandcastlesMuseum of ArchitectureThe Museum of Architecture’s mission is to better engage the public with architecture, and this June MoA is commissioning architects to design three 2.5m high by 2.5m diameter sandcastles across the borough of Kensington and Chelsea for both London Festival of Architecture and the inTRANSIT Festival. The sandcastles will be designed by leading UK architects and respond to the themes of memory and island life.

2 June12.00pm - 4.00pm

Paternoster Square EC4M 7AG

free admission

The City Centre Youth Programme Pops-Up at Paternoster SquareThe City CentreThe City Centre youth panel and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris need your help to build a new pop-up structure for the bustling precinct next to St Paul’s Cathedral in one day. Working as a team made up of young people, professionals and the public we will create a new and innovative structure that fi ts within Paternoster Square.

3 June12.00pm - 3.00pm

Somerset HouseWC2R 1LA

free admission

Memory MachineSomerset HouseThis hands on family workshop will map London through a combination of drawings and collage techniques, exploring the themes of architecture and memory. By plotting the daily routes and journeys across the city by foot, bike, car, train or bus you will have the chance to contribute to a communal map of the various buildings, spaces and attractions and collective crossovers we share. The workshop will explore buildings past and present and how the changing landscape of London will affect the future of city life.

Family events

Events by type

21 June10.30am - 12.30pm

The Building CentreWC1E 7BT

free admission

NLA Family Walking TourNew London ArchitectwureCome and discover Bloomsbury with your kids. Join our special Family Walking Tour to hear stories of old London, secret sunken gardens, private squares and Egyptian mummies! All children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

17, 18 June10.30am - 4.30pm

Dulwich Picture GallerySE21 9LD

£16 per child (includes a takeaway lego build)

Pavilion Lego WorkshopsDulwich Picture GalleryExplore the architecture of arts spaces with Lego. Be inspired by the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s arts spaces, such as their Soane Gallery and the new Dulwich Pavilion it inspired. With the help of a professional lego builder, you will create your own lego build to take home!

11, 18, 25 June12.00pm - 2.00pm

Museum of LondonEC2Y 5HN

free admission

Museum Explored - ArchitectureMuseum of LondonGet stuck in to a architecture-inspired activity at the Museum of London. Expert museum hosts will support you during hands-on fun. This is a drop-in workshop, so stop by anytime between 12-2pm.

25 June2.00pm - 4.00pm

Main GalleriesW1J OBD

See LFA website for ticket information

The RA LEGO ChallengeRoyal Academy of ArtsThe Royal Academy invites four leading London-based architectural practices to recreate buildings that have been lost or never existed using 15,000 Lego bricks.

23 - 25 June6.00pm - 7.00pm

Multiple locations across Greenwich

free admission

Greenwich FairGreenwich+Docklands International FestivalGreenwich+Docklands International Festival’s Greenwich Fair is a family-friendly 21st century response to Greenwich Fair’s legacy of fun, frolics and spectacle with hundreds of performances taking place across the open spaces of Greenwich Town Centre, Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich Park and the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College.

11 June11.00am - 12.30pm,

2.00pm - 3.30pmThe National Gallery

WC2N 5DNfree admission

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t! The National GalleryPortraits stay still don’t they? Not this one! Come and fi nd out how to draw a portrait that moves and changes and even disappears! Explore how National Gallery paintings can be used as inspiration.