{"id":97727,"date":"2026-05-22T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peerspace.com\/uk\/resources\/?p=97727"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:32:11","slug":"unique-things-to-do-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peerspace.com\/uk\/resources\/unique-things-to-do-london\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Unique Things to Do in London in June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve lived in London longer than a month, you know the tourist map and the locals’ map don’t really overlap. The first is efficient and lets your cousin from Ohio tick off the Eye, the Tower and Platform 9\u00be in a single Saturday. The second includes a 1950s ballroom in Brockley where 200 people do Northern Soul moves every month, a Hackney museum full of shrunken heads and two-headed lambs, an adult ball pit that serves frozen margaritas and a silent disco that happens on a boat on the Thames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This list is the second map. Fifteen unique things to do in London in 2026: a mix of permanent weird venues, annual events with confirmed dates and a few hidden gems most Londoners have walked past a thousand times without ever going in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Great Exhibition Road Festival: 6-7 June 2026, free across South Kensington<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Great Exhibition Road Festival<\/a> returns to South Kensington on 6 and 7 June 2026, marking 175 years since the original 1851 Great Exhibition that funded most of Albertopolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n