Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill

V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7; Sat 6 Mar–Mon 4 Jul; daily 10am–5.45pm; £6

Walpole was a historian and one of the most important collectors of the 18th century. This exhibition will recreate his pioneering collection in the context of the rooms at his gothic revivalist house Strawberry Hill, where visitors experienced a journey through ancient and modern British history and European art.

www.vam.ac.uk; 020 7942 2000

Vase with arms and ring device of the Medici, c.1465-80

Soap

Studio 2 at Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6; Fri 5 Mar–Sun 25 Apr; West London Living readers can get two tickets for £12 for performances until Sun 21 Mar – just say 'hot ticket' when you book over the phone

Devised by Markus Pabst (creator of the Bath Boy act in La Clique), Soap is a variety set which promises to be sexy, funny and awe-inspiring.

www.riversidestudios.co.uk;
020 8237 1111