David Bowie at the V&A is one of the must-see exhibitions in London this summer reports LondonTown.com

(TRAVPR.COM) UK - April 18th, 2013 - ‘David Bowie is…’ broke all records for advance ticket sales before it even opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum in March. The blockbuster exhibition, which continues until Sunday 11th August 2013, has lived up to expectations and is widely regarded as one of the best exhibitions of the year. For visitors traveling to the city for the exhibition or any of the other South Kensington museums staging summer events in London it’s easy to find a London hotel within walking distance of Exhibition Road and its surrounding museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.

As well as the excellent Bowie exhibition the V&A stages ‘Treasures of the Royal Courts’, an exhibition which reveals the gifts given between of the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible and the early Romanovs. This major exhibition of jewellery, armour, paintings and silverware celebrates 500 years of exchange between Britain and Russia and continues until Sunday 14th July 2013.

Nine remarkable oil paintings and sketches of the Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town by Walter Sickert are displayed together for the first time in ‘Music Hall: Sickert and the Three Graces’ (16th March 2013 to 5th January 2014), an intimate installation in the V&A’s Theatre and Performance Galleries with filmed extracts from a specially commissioned play.

Opening on 10th July, the V&A’s fashion exhibition for summer 2013, ‘Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s’, will explore the creative explosion of London fashion in the 1980s featuring more than 85 outfits by designers such as John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hamnett.

Highlights of the 2013 summer exhibitions at the Natural History Museum are ‘Extinction: Not the End of the World?’ which continues until Sunday 8th September 2013 and uses the latest scientific findings to study causes of extinctions past and recent; ‘Sebastião Salgado: Genesis’, extraordinary images of landscapes, wildlife and remote communities by the world-renowned photographer; and ‘Sensational Butterflies’, the popular annual exhibition of beautiful butterflies.

The V&A’s Wildlife Garden, an oasis for wildlife, opened at the beginning of April is home to events like Save The Frogs Day, a free, family event on Saturday 27th April, while the Attenborough Studio is the place to go for interesting talks on topics like The Jurassic Tree (25th April), Why Did the Mammouth Go Extinct (9th May), and Marvellous Moths (19th May).

At the Science Museum ‘The Voice of the BBC’ continues until Tuesday 14th May, looking back to the BBC’s first broadcast on 14 November 1922. Also ongoing is ‘Codebreaker – Alan Turing’s life and legacy’, a special exhibition celebrating the work and legacy of Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer of modern computing and Enigma codebreaker which ends on Sunday 30th June 2013.

A small, free exhibition which has already opened on the second floor of the Science Museum, the year-long exhibition ‘Shackleton’s Man Goes South’ is named after the title of a new work of fiction by author Tony White, premiering exclusively at the Science Museum, that explores the political, social and cultural impacts of climate change.

Opening in September 2013, the Science Museum’s new £4 million Media Space gallery will showcase the National Photography Collection held by the National Media Museum through a series of major exhibitions. The 500 metre square new exhibition space on the second floor of the museum opens on Saturday 21st September 2013 with the first ever major London exhibition by work of British photographer Tony Ray-Jones and includes 50 rarely seen early black and white photographs by Martin Parr.

If you’re planning to visit London’s famous South Kensington museums this summer visit LondonTown.com where the latest information on all major London museums, theatres, art galleries and summer festivals is presented on one easy-to-navigate website.

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