Cultural Building sights in London
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Royal Geographical Society
Just east of the Royal Albert Hall is the headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society, founded in 1830 and housed in a Queen Anne–style red-brick edifice (1874) easily identified by the statues of explorers David Livingstone and Ernest Shackleton outside. The society holds a regular talks program (especially on Monday evenings) and photography exhibitions, while the Foyle Reading Room offers access to the society’s collection of more than half a million maps, photographs, books and manuscripts. Enter from Exhibition Rd.
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Women’s Library
Just round the corner from the Whitechapel Gallery, the Women’s Library, part of the London Metropolitan University, is a unique repository for all manner of books and documents related to women’s history. It contains a reading room open to the public, as well as archive and museum collections, and organises talks and special exhibitions (last seen – Between the Covers: Women’s Magazines and Their Reader). The building is a modern take on the former Goulston Square Wash House, one of the oldest public baths in London.
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