All About London

Coming up this January at the Museum of London Bodysnatchers in London! 'Rip-roaringly theatrical...well worth coffin up for.' ★★★★ Time Out  If you missed Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men last year be sure to catch it in 2013! Be transported back to 19th century, discover the true story of London's bodysnatchers and find out how this shady trade in dead bodies has influenced modern surgery and impacted on medical practice and ethics. > Watch the 'Ballad of the Burkers' > Find out more and book tickets Courses starting in 2013 Started the year on a quest for self-improvement? Then take a look at some of the great adult courses we have starting in January and running throughout the year. Topics cover everything from anatomy, research,medicine in the 19th century and writing about London. > Find out more  Take Another Look opens! Until 14 August 2013 FREE Drawn from the collection of Leslie Braine-Ikomi, we explore visual representations of people from the African Diaspora who were living and working in Britain during the late 18th and 19th centuries in this brand new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands. > Find out more London: The Game With everyone's appetite for board games whetted after the Christmas season, we have the perfect app for the New Year! Download our enhanced, iPad version of the Museum of London's popular London: The Board Game. Easy to use and suitable for all the family, travel in time from Roman London all the way through to the 2012 Olympic Games to win. > Find out more and download A focus on photography Dorothy Bohm: Women in Focus Until 17 Feb, FREE If you are interested in photography make sure you catch our latest exhibition from the doyenne of British photography, Dorothy Bohm. Two films exploring her life and career will also be screened at the Museum of London in Dorothy Bohm: Life in pictures.> Find out more  The Great Smog Last month saw the 60th anniversary of the Great Smog of 1952, which brought the city to a complete standstill and claimed the lives of over 4,000 Londoners. To mark this we put together a video with our Senior Curator of Contemporary History, Georgina Young, to explain how it all happened. > Watch it now Highways by John Davies © John Davies  25 January – 16 June 2013 FREE  Do you remember London before the congestion charge? From 25 January we'll be displaying images by John Davies, detailing the multi-layered character of London's busy thoroughfares, photographed just before the Congestion Charge was introduced to London a decade ago.  > Find out more Walks through history Our popular walks programme returns in 2013 with even more intriguing tours and talks through some of the most interesting parts of London. Highlights in January include a journey through the stories of Spitalfields and a walk uncovering the secrets buried beneath London's streets, but be quick – these walks sell fast! > Find out more