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Albertopolis is a nickname for the area centered around South Kensington, London, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Gore, which contains a large number of educational and cultural sites, including The junction with Old Brompton Road and Pelham Street, outside South Kensington tube station. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Cromwell Road is a major road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, and is designated part of the A4. ... Kensington Gore is a street in central London, the same name having been formerly used for the piece of land on which it stands. ...

• Imperial College London
• Natural History Museum
• Royal Albert Hall
• Royal College of Art
• Royal College of Music
• Royal Geographical Society
• Science Museum
• Victoria and Albert Museum

and the following, which were originally institutions in their own right: Imperial College London (also known as Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a British university institution and a constituent college of the University of London. ... For other similarly-named museums see Museum of Natural History. ... “Albert Hall” redirects here. ... The Royal College of Art in South Kensington, London. ... // This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical science, under the patronage of King William IV. It absorbed the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa (founded by Sir Joseph... The Science Museum on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. ... The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the worlds largest and finest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a collection of over 4 million objects. ...

• Geological Museum, now a subsidiary of the Natural History Museum
• Royal School of Mines, now a subsidiary of Imperial College

Institutions formerly in Albertopolis include: The Geological Museum (originally The Museum of Practical Geology, started in 1835 and therefore one of the oldest single science museums in the world) transferred from Jermyn Street to Exhibition Road, South Kensington in 1935. ... Royal School of Mines entrance in Londons Albertopolis. ...

• Royal College of Organists, from 1904 to 1991.

The area was purchased by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 with the profits made from the Great Exhibition of 1851, which was held in a site in Hyde Park nearby to the north-east. This is commemorated in the name of the principal north-south street laid out on their estate, Exhibition Road. The Royal College of Organists or RCO, based in Birmingham, England, is the United Kingdoms national body charged with promoting organ and choral music and overseeing musical education and training for organists and choral directors. ... Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the international exhibition of 1851, officially called the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, held in The Crystal Palace. ... The Great Exhibition: Paxtons Crystal Palace enclosed full-grown trees in Hyde Park. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... “Hyde Park” redirects here. ... The main entrance of the Science Museum on Exhibition Road. ...

Prince Albert was a driving force behind the Great Exhibition and President of the Royal Commission, and the name "Albertopolis" seems to have been coined in the 1850s to celebrate and somewhat satirise his role in Victorian cultural life. After his death the term fell into disuse, and the area was more widely referred to as South Kensington. It was revived by architectural historians in the 1960s and popularised by the nascent conservation movement to bring attention to the complex of public Victorian buildings and the surrounding houses built on the Commissioners' estate, that were threatened with demolition by the expansion and redevelopment plans of Imperial College. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emmanuel, of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha branch of the House of Wettin) (26 August 1819 - 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... The junction with Old Brompton Road and Pelham Street, outside South Kensington tube station. ... Historic preservation, heritage management, or heritage conservation is the theory and practice of creatively maintaining the historic built environment and controlling the landscape component of which it is an integral part. ...

There is a central axis between the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens to the north, and the central portal of the south façade of the Natural History Museum. The Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, the former tower of the otherwise demolished Imperial Institute (now the Queen's Tower of Imperial College London) and the 1950s rear extension to the Science Museum are all aligned on this axis, which cannot be seen on the ground. This regular geometric alignment of Albertopolis can only be observed readily from the balconies of the Queen's Tower (very rarely open to visitors) although the northern part can be glimpsed from the top floor of the Science Museum. The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens, London, England, directly to the north of the Royal Albert Hall. ... See also Kensington Gardens, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, is one of the Royal Parks of London, lying immediately to the west of Hyde Park. ... The Queens Tower A view from the top of Queens Tower The Queens Tower is situated in the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

The closest tube station is South Kensington which is linked to the museums by a tiled tunnel beneath Exhibition Road constructed in 1885. This tunnel originally continued as a covered route to the south porch of the Royal Albert Hall via a second tunnel (now used as the Imperial College London shooting range) before emerging into the arcades and conservatory of the former gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society. Located on Cromwell Road in South Kensington, London, South Kensington tube station is the closest London Underground station to the Natural History, Science and Victoria and Albert Museums, as well as to Imperial College. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 as the London Horticultural Society, and gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861 by Prince Albert. ...

References

Survey of London: volume 38: South Kensington Museums Area (1975)

Originally published by the Athlone Press for the Greater London Council. Available online as part of the: British History Online site

See also

• Henry Cole
• Charles Wentworth Dilke

Sir Henry Cole (15 July 1808, Bath – 18 April 1882, London) was a civil servant who facilitated many innovations in commerce and education in 19th century Britain. ... Charles Wentworth Dilke can refer to: Charles Wentworth Dilke (Dilke the Elder) (1789-1864), editor of the Athenaeum from 1830. ...

External links

• Victoria and Albert Museum walking tour of Albertopolis
• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851