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The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries, film programmes and language classes they run, and the international festivals that return to the same ground each year. Much of what they put on is free.
Where those countries' people lived, in the past tense: The World in London
France's London house since 1910: two cinema screens, a lending library, a children's library and a film most nights.
Film programmeExhibitionsLibraryLanguage coursesConcerts
The Institut has been in South Kensington since 1910 and takes a hundred thousand people a year through the door. Ciné Lumière, its two-screen cinema, is the reason most of them come - new French releases, restorations, festivals, and directors in the room for the questions afterwards, all with subtitles. La Médiathèque is a lending library of French books, films and magazines that anyone may join, and the Bibliothèque Quentin Blake next to it is for children.
The rest is talks, debates, concerts and workshops, plus the language centre in the Centre Molière and a brasserie off the lobby. The cinema is listed separately here as Ciné Lumière; this is the building it sits in.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.