Memorial to the Great Exhibition

The Memorial to the Great Exhibition is an outdoor monument commemorating the Great Exhibition and depicting Albert, Prince Consort, designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke and located south of Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom.

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Type: Work of art
Artwork type: statue
Description: monument in London commemorating the Great Exhibition of 1851
Also known as: “Memorial of the 1851 Exhibition”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum.

Royal Albert Hall

Theater building

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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage.

Natural History Museum

Museum

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The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 1,500 feet south of Memorial to the Great Exhibition.

Royal College of Art

University

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The Royal College of Art is a public research university in London, England, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. Royal College of Art is situated 460 feet west of Memorial to the Great Exhibition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Kensington and Knightsbridge.

South Kensington

Suburb

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South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.

Knightsbridge

Suburb

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Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End.

Brompton

Suburb

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Brompton, sometimes called Old Brompton, is an area in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex.

Memorial to the Great Exhibition

Categories: memorial, statue, and tourism
Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.50039° or 51° 30′ 1″ north

Longitude

-0.17728° or 0° 10′ 38″ west

Open location code

9C3XGR2F+53

OpenStreetMap ID

node 304938549

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=statue

Wikidata ID

Q18121536

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In Other Languages

“Memorial to the Great Exhibition” goes by many names.

Egyptian Arabic: “التمثال التذكارى للمعرض الكبير”

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Highlights include Imperial Cinema and Beit Quadrangle.

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