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"Patience is a virtue" sounds like something Polonius would say but these photos were worth the wait! #HamletBarbican

Is our #BladeRunner2049 campaign too much...? @RyanGosling @bladerunner #RedSun

'The rest is silence...' Thank you to our audiences from around the world and the #hamletbarbican team @SFP_London

Benedict Cumberbatch explores our Conservatory as he talks to @OutMagazine #hamletbarbican ow.ly/CJFLA

Congratulations to the cast and company of #hamletbarbican! @SFP_London

Soft, fragile, toxic - what is masculinity? Our photography exhibition #Masculinities: Liberation through Photography is now on sale - tickets must be booked in advance and the show will open on Mon 13 July 💪 bit.ly/39rIhJO

'Music was my gateway to dreams and hope...' – Mohammed Assaf bit.ly/1S00xMG

#Longread : Tokyo-based journalist @ianfmartin looks back through the decades to see who was responsible for the genre-defining music emerging from the Japanese underground scenes over the past 40 years bit.ly/2t4XCgT

This time last year, the stage was set for the first performance of #hamletbarbican @SFP_London #onthisday

❄️❄️❄️ The day Brutalism met the #BeastFromTheEast

Happy birthday to #BenedictCumberbatch, who played Hamlet in our Theatre last year!

Best way to start a Friday? With a Cumber-batch of cupcakes #hamletbarbican

A few minutes ago - a Brutal #sunset 🌆

Ready for Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet? Bookmark our dedicated page hamlet.barbican.org.uk ahead of Members on-sale Fri #hamletbarbican

To be or not to be… We can now reveal the official photo for #hamletbarbican hamlet.barbican.org.uk

This morning’s view❄️❄️❄️ #londonsnow #snowday

Turkish pop music singer-songwriter @mabelmatiz brings his unique blend of maqam music, Anatolian folk melodies with synth, and urban pop 🎶💥 barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/…

🎈🎈🎈Happy birthday to us🎈🎈🎈 Did you know? We opened to the public #onthisday 38 years ago with 130,000 cubic metres of concrete (!) and a diverse programme covering art, theatre, music and cinema🎉🎂 Do you remember your first visit here?

This Saturday, join Sir @IanMcKellen on this panel discussion with @TheRSC about film and tv bit.ly/1mC8Qnu

🇩🇰 👨🏽❤️👸🏻💍👑 👻💬💀❌🐍👦🏽🔪👨🏽 🐝🐝🚫🐝🐝❓ 👦🏽❤️👧🏾😡➡️⛪️ 🎭👨🏽👸🏻😳💊➡️👂🏼 👸🏻👴🏼➡️🚪👦🏽🔪👴🏼💀 👧🏾💐🌊💀 👦🏽⛵➡️🇬🇧🏊🏼🇩🇰 🔪🔪🔄👦🏽💀💊🍷👸🏻💀🔪👨🏽💀🔪👦🏽💀 💔👼🏽 #HamletBarbican #WorldEmojiDay

Thank you to everyone for all your kind wishes of luck & leg breaking to the cast, crew and Barbican team for #hamletbarbican opening night!

It's our birthday🎂🎈🎉 We opened #OnThisDay in 1982 - in the first Barbican brochure, or Diary, as it was then called, we announced our opening celebrations, five days of events including a visit from Her Majesty The Queen👑

From everyone at the Barbican - best of luck to the cast and crew for Opening Night of #hamletbarbican @SFP_London

We can now announce Lyndsey Turner's Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch will be on sale in August #hamletbarbican hamlet.barbican.org.uk

We would like to wish our very own Hamlet, Benedict Cumberbatch, a very happy birthday! #hamletbarbican

Me getting my dose of fresh air during my stupid little daily walks #BernieSanders

We're missing the tranquillity of our Conservatory🌴🌷 So we're starting a thread of houseplants, big and small -reply to this with a picture of your houseplants 🌵#WellnessWednesday

Happy birthday to us! Today we celebrate our 35th birthday with 35 years of Barbican Firsts #Barbican35 barbican.org.uk/barbicanat35/

Let's take a look inside rehearsals for #hamletbarbican with Benedict Cumberbatch @SFP_London hamlet.barbican.org.uk

To be, or not to be: Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet? Head to @MailOnline for some exciting news ow.ly/uOycx

Time to welcome you back to (some of) the Barbican! Today we announce the reopening of our Art Gallery and Conservatory on Mon 13 July. To help you plan your visit, here's how we'll be keeping our staff and visitors safe and what to expect bit.ly/31sz0Au

The play's the thing. Tonight our Theatre is streamed live to 650 UK cinemas @NTLive How do we look? #hamletbarbican

Staff will be placed throughout the auditorium & we reserve the right to remove anyone using a mobile device or camera #hamletbarbican

For those of you joining us for tonight's Opening Night of #hamletbarbican, remember it starts at 7pm (not 7.15pm)

Congratulations Benedict Cumberbatch, Sian Brooke, Ciaran Hinds & Kobna Holdbrook-Smith #WOSAwards #hamletbarbican

We'll announce ticket details for #hamletbarbican in May. Sign up to our Theatre newsletter to be the first to know ow.ly/uZ3BG

'From a certain location in Hackney, the sun appears to drop between the Barbican Towers' - @London_Rooftops bit.ly/2q32nVu

Happy #InternationalCatDay! Unfortunately, we don't get many feline visitors here at the Barbican, so we'll leave you with this photo of a black cat audition from 1961, taken by photographer Ralph Crane

A brutal day... #backtowork

In spring 2019, Cillian Murphy stars in Enda Walsh's adaptation of @maxjohnporter's 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers', a meditation on love, loss & living produced by @waywardprod in association with @Complicite & co-produced by the Barbican bit.ly/2pOeVk0

Were you here in 2015 for #Hamlet? It was our first @NTLive broadcast from the Barbican #Barbican35 bit.ly/2mNpaTf

Polonius and his daughter Ophelia, Hamlet and the Ghost... @SFP_London #hamletbarbican

Mugs to magnets, jewellery to totes, notebooks to bookmarks: #hamletbarbican shop is now live ow.ly/Q2Ihl

We present @TheRoyalOpera's world premiere of Coraline with @BrittenSinfonia, based on the story by @neilhimself bit.ly/2zo1A92

✨New podcast✨ In our final episode with @stephenfry, exploring music, art and mental health, Stephen explores his own identity and answers the question ‘can art really be used to change the world?’ Listen & subscribe 👇 bit.ly/3griiqn

Oh hai, @TimeOutLondon. What's this we see about you telling folks to say we have 'loads' of #hamletbarbican tickets?

'Hamlet' with Benedict Cumberbatch will be broadcast by @NTLive on Thu 15 Oct #hamletbarbican ow.ly/JmS8t

An empty Barbican during lockdown, taken by our Centre Manager, Freda Pouflis, who is working with a small and dedicated team onsite to keep the building secure💛#MondaysAreBrutal

Today's view ☀️ #WarmestDayOfTheYear

It's our final screening and ScreenTalk of this feature tonight!✨barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/…

Happy birthday to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born on this day in 1859. Who's your favourite #SherlockHolmes?

To bid or not to bid? Win the signed #HamletBarbican skull in our #Halloween silent auction bit.ly/1k9UDwk

A reminder from the #hamletbarbican team, cast & crew to please completely switch off any mobile devices before entering the auditorium.

To sleep, perchance to dream…Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Lyndsey Turner’s #Hamlet for 12 weeks from August 2015 ow.ly/uWsQa

We love this photo series that reveal the interior of the Barbican Estate & its residents bit.ly/1PHi2Us

Ambassador for @mndassoc Benedict Cumberbatch graciously accepts his (numerous) #IceBucketChallenge(s) for #MND #ALS ow.ly/ACjns

Our Conservatory back in March 1980 #MondaysAreBrutal

So...did everyone have a great opening night? A huge thank you to the cast, crew & audience of Lyndsey Turner's #hamletbarbican @SFP_London

All good things must come to an end 😢 Best of luck to the incredible @totoro_show team on their final show tonight 💚☔

Live from our Theatre...Will you be watching @NTLive #hamletbarbican on Thursday? bit.ly/1TdVQma

Benedict Cumberbatch talks about his role in Lyndsey Turner's #hamletbarbican @Comic_Con #SDCC (via @LATherocomplex) herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/comic-c…

Cancel all your plans! Today is #NationalCinemaDay 😍 All film screenings are £3 (+ booking fee) all day🍿🙌 bit.ly/2n0qsLO

We're announcing our 2017 season today, featuring #BoomForReal by Jean-Michel Basquiat & a new dance season. Stay tuned!

The Barbican towers were the tallest residential towers in Europe when they were completed between 1973 and 1976 #MondaysAreBrutal

Fancy winning a chair from @oldvictheatre 's The Crucible, signed by @RCArmitage ? bit.ly/1WWOEZ5

A villanous Cumberbatch is legendary baddie Khan- Star Trek Into Darkness, 6pm #hamletbarbican bit.ly/1SYHUfI

Watch out London, Paddington is on tour. Meet Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Bear @MuseumofLondon #PaddingtonTrail

Did you know? The word 'Brutalism' derives from the French 'béton brut', meaning raw concrete #MondaysAreBrutal

Did you know? There are 119 ways to access the Barbican Centre #MondaysAreBrutal

Did you know? The word 'Brutalism' derives from the French 'béton brut', meaning raw concrete #MondaysAreBrutal

✨NOW OPEN✨ Prepare to meet the future - our AI: #MorethanHuman exhibition is now open in the Centre, featuring an interactive installation by Teamlab, a video game by Lawrence Lek and a poetry-writing AI installation ✨🤖 Until 26 Aug - tickets 👉 bit.ly/2NLGjxK

Did you know? There are 119 ways to access the Barbican Centre #MondaysAreBrutal

Based on Alexander Master’s biography, unlikely friendships unfold in Stuart A Life Backwards bit.ly/1PbKCYV

Photography & filming is strictly prohibited throughout – it is distracting to the cast & your fellow audience members! #hamletbarbican

Excited to announce new collaborators to our upcoming exhibition, #MorethanHuman, including @DeepMindAI, @googlearts, @IBM and more AI: More than Human opens Thu 16 May bit.ly/2ECY3Fp

'Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, or ever I had seen that day' -last Autumn we were showing #Hamlet #LoveTheatreDay

Our Lake Terrace in the early 80s #MondaysAreBrutal