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Culture · 7 November 2026 · musa.guide

V&A opens 'Constantinople to Istanbul' exhibition in London

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The Victoria and Albert Museum opens "Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires" on 7 November. It is billed as a UK first, covering 1,600 years of art and design from a single city.

The Victoria and Albert Museum opens a new exhibition, Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires, on 7 November. It is described as a UK first. The show presents 1,600 years of art and design drawn from one city, following it across its Byzantine and Ottoman centuries as Constantinople became Istanbul.

The opening is one of several London exhibition launches this November. The Dulwich Picture Gallery opens its Charlie Mackesy show, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse...and You, on 3 November, and the Design Museum opens The Nue Black Aesthetic on 6 November. Tate Britain follows on 12 November with Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, which brings together over 300 works from the pair's fifty-year partnership.

Later in the month, the Wallace Collection opens Cosimo I de' Medici: Art and Dynasty on 18 November. The National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts both open exhibitions on 21 November: Van Eyck: The Portraits at the National Gallery, and Peggy Guggenheim in London at the Royal Academy. The Hayward Gallery opens Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong on 24 November.

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