London by Design: Royal Academy of Arts

Currently celebrating its 250th anniversary, the Royal Academy of Arts, which hosts the annual unmissable Summer Exhibition, has been making, debating and showing art since 1768. The RA’s ever expanding campus now includes a new lecture theatre and a link between its Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens galleries for the first time in its history.
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