Celebrate London’s hidden treasures with the CultureLine Summer Discovery Weekend

CultureLine, a partnership of 10 museums along the new London Overground East London Line, have announced a Summer Discovery Weekend, on the 6th - 8th of August.

The programme features exhibitions, costumed characters, guided walks and live music. From natural history to local history, international contemporary art to engineering masterpieces there are events for all interests and ages.

The event will feature Hackney Museum and the Geoffrye Museum as part of the discovery weekend.

The launch event will kick off with a preview at the Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday 5 August - a talk on Alice Neel: Painted Truth the first major retrospective of the influential painter, featuring a portrait of Andy Warhol previously unseen in the UK.

Further highlights include:

•    See George Washington’s false teeth and find out more about the Elephant Man at the Royal London Hospital Museum

•    Get hands on at BodyTalk, an exhibition for all the family featuring installations created by East London artists at Hackney Museum

•    Explore the inventive ways in which the suffragettes used the postal system during their campaign for the vote at Fe:MAIL: Suffragettes and the Post at the Women’s Library

•    Celebrate the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ during the Thames Tunnel Fancy Fair at the Brunel Museum

o    Enjoy live music from Caribbean Steel International and garden games from Victorian times to the present day at the Geffrye Museum

•    Join the Horniman Museum for Africa Live! and immerse yourself in a continent of culture, music, food and drink

•    Go on a guided tour of one of London’s most iconic lost buildings, the Crystal Palace, with the Crystal Palace Museum

    

Further information on CultureLine can be found at www.cultureline.org.uk.