Green fingers

An £80m indoor garden the size of 30 football pitches opens today with two huge conservatories housing tropical plants from Amazonia, West Africa, Oceania and Malaysia, as well as temperate plants from California, Southern Africa and the Med.

Open daily, 10am-6pm. £9.50/ £4. The Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall (01726 811911).

Drive by

The London Classic Motor Show has hundreds of classic, custom, prestige, sports and vintage vehicles on display, including John Lennon's 1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman limousine sold to George Harrison when Lennon moved to New York in the 70s.

March 17-18, 10am-6pm. £7.50/£3. Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London (0115 9129203).

Small wonders

Spoil the doll in your life at the Miniature Dolls House Show. More than 250 stands selling everything from cottages, castles, Tudor mansions and stately homes to silver, porcelain, bed linen and garden furniture.

March 18, 10am-4.30pm. £5.50/ £2.50. National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham (0121-767 4100).

Battle axes

Around 80 Vikings from the Regia Angloran re-enactment society are bringing their longship to Clarence Dock this weekend to stage scenes from the 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge and demonstrate sword, axe and shield fighting techniques.

March17-18, 10.30am-4.30pm. £4.90/£3.90/ £14.90. Royal Armouries Museum, Armouries Drive, Leeds (0113 2201916).

Pint-sized fun

Fancy a stiff one in Shakespeare's local, Lenin's favourite drinking hole or CS Lewis's preferred boozer? A new series of classic pub walk leaflets, written by historians and Blue Badge guides, offers an insight into the most captivating hostelries in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford and York.

Call 0121-420 6034 or view online at www.classicpubwalks.com

Photo fit

The first UK showing of photographs by film director Stanley Kubrick, taken while working as an apprentice photographer for New York's Look Magazine.

Until April 1. Tues-Sun, 10am-5:30pm. £2. Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith House, Inverlieth Row, Edinburgh (0131-552 71 71).

Spencer's world

A major new exhibition of the work of Stanley Spencer, one of the masters of 20th-century British art and official second world war artist, features more than 100 paintings and drawings from worldwide collections.

Until June 24. 10am-5:50pm. £8.50/ £5.50/ £22.50. Tate Britain, Millbank, London (020-7887 8008).