Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performance, composition, conducting, music theory and history, and has trained some of the most important figures in international music life.Photo: Julian Herzog, CC BY 4.0.
- Type: University building
- Description: college in Kensington and Chelsea, UK
- Also known as: “RCM”
- Address: Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BS
- Roof shape: hipped
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. Royal Albert Hall is situated 490 feet north of Royal College of Music.
Natural History Museum
Museum
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Natural History Museum in London 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 1,200 feet south of Royal College of Music.
Science Museum
Museum
Photo: Shadowssettle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually in 2019. Science Museum is situated 860 feet south of Royal College of Music.
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.
Royal College of Music
Latitude
51.49969° or 51° 29′ 59″ northLongitude
-0.17712° or 0° 10′ 38″ westLevels
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9C3XFRXF+V5OpenStreetMap ID
way 27765400OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=hippedWikidata ID
Q304985
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Royal College of Music” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكلية الملكية للموسيقى”
- Armenian: “Երաժշտության թագավորական քոլեջ”
- Azerbaijani: “Kral Musiqi Kolleci”
- Basque: “Royal College of Music”
- Belarusian: “Каралеўскі каледж музыкі”
- Belarusian: “Каралеўскі коледж музыкі”
- Catalan: “Royal College of Music”
- Chinese: “皇家音乐学院”
- Chinese: “皇家音樂學院”
- Czech: “Královská hudební kolej”
- Czech: “Royal College of Music”
- Danish: “RCM”
- Danish: “Royal College of Music”
- Dutch: “Royal College of Music”
- Esperanto: “Reĝa Kolegio de Muziko”
- Estonian: “Londoni Kuninglik Muusikakolledž”
- Finnish: “Royal College of Music”
- French: “Royal College of Music”
- Galician: “Royal College of Music”
- Georgian: “მუსიკის სამეფო კოლეჯი”
- German: “Royal College of Music”
- Greek: “Βασιλικό Κολέγιο Μουσικής του Λονδίνου”
- Greek: “Βασιλικό Κολέγιο Μουσικής”
- Hebrew: “הקולג‘ המלכותי למוזיקה”
- Hebrew: “הקולג’ המלכותי למוזיקה”
- Hungarian: “Royal College of Music”
- Indonesian: “Royal College of Music”
- Irish: “an Ceol-Choláiste Ríoga”
- Italian: “Royal College of Music”
- Japanese: “王立音楽大学”
- Korean: “왕립음악대학”
- Latvian: “Karaliskā Mūzikas koledža”
- Macedonian: “Кралски колеџ за музика”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Royal College of Music”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Royal College of Music”
- Norwegian: “Royal College of Music”
- Persian: “کالج سلطنتی موسیقی لندن”
- Persian: “کالج سلطنتی موسیقی”
- Polish: “Royal College of Music”
- Portuguese: “Royal College of Music”
- Russian: “Королевский колледж музыки”
- Slovak: “Royal College of Music”
- Slovenian: “Kraljevi glasbeni kolidž”
- Slovenian: “RCM”
- Slovenian: “Royal College of Music”
- Spanish: “Real Colegio de Música”
- Spanish: “Royal College of Music”
- Swedish: “Royal College of Music”
- Thai: “ราชวิทยาลัยคีตกรรม”
- Turkish: “Kraliyet Müzik Koleji”
- Ukrainian: “Королівський коледж музики”
- Urdu: “رائل کالج آف میوزک”
- Vietnamese: “Cao đẳng Âm nhạc Hoàng gia”
- Welsh: “Y Coleg Cerdd Frenhinol”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Royal College of Music Museum and Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall.
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