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Topolski Century

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Topolski Century

Photo: Mr Ignavy  (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

  • 600-foot panoramic artwork depicting 20th century events and figures
  • Portraits of Gandhi, Picasso, Martin Luther King and 700 others
  • Archive of Chronicles - hand-printed broadsheet drawings from 1953-1982
  • Housed in Topolski's original South Bank studio

You'll find Topolski Century, an arts educational organisation, in its headquarters located in Feliks Topolski's first studio on the South Bank. Here you can explore 'Memoir of the Century', a 600-foot artwork that presents an extraordinary panoramic record of the twentieth century, depicting portraits including Nehru, Gandhi, Picasso and Martin Luther King among 700 other prominent figures. You can also see the Chronicles, published twenty-four times a year between 1953 and 1982, comprising more than 2300 pieces, which offer essential insight into the artist's working methods. Located in Lambeth, it sits just London Waterloo station 0.2 miles away, and with 806 bookable places to stay within 5 miles on BritStays, it's an easy addition to a South Bank visit.

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Visitors interested in 20th-century history and eyewitness art

From the attraction's own website on 4 Oct 2026 — check before you travel.

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