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Celebrate the new year at our free family festival, just a stone's throw away from London's original Chinatown in Limehouse. Listen to classic Chinese folktales, take part in workshops, get stuck into celebratory crafts and enjoy a Dragon dance. 🥾 London Chinese Lunar New Year Parade 2025: start time, route and everything you need to know. Year of the Snake at Greenwich Peninsula. London Museum Docklands, E14 4AL. Free. Discover the official event programme and more exciting activities you can attend to celebrate Chinese New Year 2025 in London: This year, the festivities are set to take place across two days, starting with the spectacular lion dance performances on the 1 February between 11am and 5pm. Welcome the Year of the Snake with mesmerizing dragon dances enchanting folktales vibrant crafts and lively community-led events at the London Museum Docklands on 1st Feb 2025. Where you can celebrate the new year at their free family festival just a stone's throw away from London's original Chinatown in Limehouse. Expect acrobatic Lion and Dragon dances in Peninsula Square from 1.30pm, Firepit Art Gallery exhibitions celebrating Lunar New Year; hands-on workshops like woodblock printing, bamboo weaving and Chinese knot-making; live music from Eastern Margins DJs, and the Eternal Market - a vibrant Pan Asian showcase featuring contemporary and traditional fare, brimming with delicious food, unique crafts A mixed-heritage Londoner explores Lunar New Year traditions, from Chinatown's bustling streets to family hotpot dinners, showing how migrant communities keep cultural celebrations alive in modern London. In 2025 Chinese New Year falls on Wednesday 29 January, and this time around it’s the Year of the Snake. London’s Chinatown, Trafalgar Square and the West End will fill up with hundreds of London Docklands Museum. London Docklands Museum is a family-friendly place to celebrate Chinese New Year. The museum can be found at 1 West India Quay and is near Canary Wharf tube station. The celebration takes place from 1 to 2 February. Explore the community-led events, including mesmerising Chinese folktales and lion dances. The major celebrations happen on Sunday 2 February 2025, with the Chinese New Year Parade and its surrounding festivities. The parade itself departs from the east side of Trafalgar Square at Celebrate Chinese New Year with a traditional lion dance by the London Chinatown Chinese Association in the Museum's Great Court. This year, the Museum of the Home is celebrating the Lunar New Year with a fun family day of creativity and storytelling. Join them on 18 February for free events, including storytelling and crafting sessions, as well as the chance for children to create their own temporary home in the museum's interactive family playhouse. As the Lunar Year dawns, join the Science Museum to celebrate the Year of the Dragon and the opening of Zimingzhong å‡ æ—¶è šç , their new exhibition about Chinese clockwork. Amongst lion and dragon dancers, Chinese drummers, and New Year’s arts and Chinese New Year – Science Museum Lates Read More » What is Chinese New Year? Chinese New Year always falls between late January and mid-February and has a history of over 3,500 years. In 2025, Chinese New Year falls on 29 January. It is also called the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival and is the most important festival in Chinese culture. It celebrates the beginning of the new year on the Book free tickets for the Lunar New Year festivities at the National Maritime Museum. Lunar New Year Family Festival at Museum of London Docklands. 10 – 11 February 2024. Welcome the Year of the Dragon at the Museum of London Docklands’s weekend family festival. The Science Museum's new exhibition Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍 celebrates the ingenuity of Chinese clockmakers: explore it after dark at this Lunar New Year themed late. In Chinatown London you’ll find lion dancing, stalls and plenty of places to stop off for a Chinese New Year feast. Full Schedule of Chinese New Year Events in London: 1st February 2025. 11:00am – 5:00pm: 📍Chinatown: Lion Dance Performances throughout Chinatown; 2nd February 2025. 10:00am – 11:45am: 📍 East of Trafalgar Square to Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍 is the Science Museum's new exhibition on Chinese clockwork, and at this one-off special Chinese New Year Late, you can delve into the history of timekeeping, with added lion and dragon dancers, Chinese drummers, and New Year's arts and crafts. London Museum Docklands - Series. Lunar New Year festival. More info 1 – 2 Feb 2025. We're counting down – the new London Museum will open in 2026 in Smithfield. REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion at the Design Museum highlights London's unique fashion culture on the world stage. CHINESE NEW YEAR: Saturday is Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year, The Chinese New Year Parade. True to the city’s tradition, the largest and most beautiful celebration will be the Chinese New Year parade, with its main stage in Trafalgar Square. With over 300,000 people participating in London's Chinese New Year festivities, the parade promises to bring color to the streets of London.
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