Hatch, Match and Despatch, The Fan Museum
The Marriage of the Dauphin French, c. 1770 The Fan Museum, HA Collection
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Science will feature strongly at the Horniman Museum in the south London, which has a wonderful natural history collection, as well as a small aquarium and gorgeous gardens. Extremes (15th February - 2nd November 2014) will show how animals and plants survive in extreme conditions and the Horniman will also open a new gallery, At Home With Music (end of January 2014), which brings together highlights of the keyboard instrument collections from the Horniman and the V&A, including a portable piano like the one Captain Scott took with him to the Antarctic in 1901.
Over in Bethnal Green, the V&A's Museum of Childhood's has Daydreams And Diaries: The Story Of Jacqueline Wilson (5th April - 2nd November). Jacqueline Wilson, writer of The Story Of Tracy Beaker, is one of the world's best-selling children's authors and this exhibition will investigate her childhood and early career, while finding out what inspires her to write.
At the Fashion and Textile Museum near London Bridge, Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol (31st January - 17th May 2014), will show 200 textiles featuring artists such as Braque, Miro and Picasso. Further downriver in Greenwich, at one of London's most quintessentially British small museums, the Fan Museum will have two exhibitions for the first half of 2014 - Hatch, Match, Despatch (11th January - 1st June 2014) and Seduced: Fans And The Art Of Advertisting (6th June - 28th September).
Finally, if you are a fan of gardening, don't miss the Garden Museum, housed in an old church in Lambeth. Their A History Of Gardening In 100 Objects (19th May - 30th August 2014) has been curated by celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh while Fashion & Gardens: Spring/Summer - Autumn/Winter (7th February - 27th April 2014) looks at the relationship between fashion and gardening.