Free Punk Exhibition Celebrating Women Who Shaped the Genre Opens in London Today

The Museum of Youth Culture at St Pancras Campus in King's Cross, London opens God Save the Queens on 23 October 2026, running until 22 November. The free exhibition is part of the city-wide Up Yours! Festival celebrating punk's female pioneers. It centres on Poly Styrene — the visionary frontwoman of X-Ray Spex — and brings together rare and previously unseen artwork, photography, fashion and personal archival material. Highlights include items from the Poly Styrene Archive, original radical feminist photography by Linder, previously unseen artwork from X-Ray Spex saxophonist Lora Logic, and iconic archival fashion pieces from pink-haired designer Dame Zandra Rhodes. Other punk icons represented include Chrissie Hynde and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The exhibition is free to attend at the museum's Georgiana Street, NW1 address. It sits alongside a broader festival of punk-themed events across the capital honouring the women whose creativity and defiance defined the genre.