Kensington & Chelsea
Free

Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah

From 6 November 2026 · South Kensington

About this event

Sir John Akomfrah's five-screen film installation traces the Columbian Exchange and its lasting environmental and social effects, using landscape imagery, archival themes and sound to connect migration, colonialism, disease and the natural world.

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Getting there

Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD

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