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.Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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
Photo: Sandpiper, Public domain.
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
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Wjfox2005, Public domain.
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″ northLongitude
-0.17728° or 0° 10′ 38″ westOpen location code
9C3XGR2F+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 304938549OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata 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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