Royal Scottish Academy Building

The Royal Scottish Academy building, the home of the Royal Scottish Academy, is an art museum in , Scotland. It is situated at the junction of and in the centre of the city.
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  • Type: Art gallery
  • Description: art museum in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Royal Scottish Academy” and “RSA”
  • Address: The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottish National Gallery and Edinburgh Castle.

Art gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.

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is a historic castle in , Scotland. It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Royal Scottish Academy Building.

Square
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is an artificial slope and road in central , Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's and . It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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is the original settlement of . At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

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of is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

Neighborhood
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The , also known as the Moray Feu, is an early 19th century building venture attaching the west side of the . Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it has been described as a masterpiece of urban planning.

Royal Scottish Academy Building

Latitude
55.95167° or 55° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.19627° or 3° 11′ 47″ west
Operator
Royal Scottish Academy
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
way 5182745
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Royal Scottish Academy Building” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “苏格兰皇家学院大楼”
  • Danish: “Royal Scottish Academy Building”
  • Korean: “로얄 스코틀랜드 아카데미”
  • Turkish: “İskoç Kraliyet Akademisi Binası”
  • Turkish: “İskoçya Kraliyet Akademisi Binası”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Floral clock and Allan Ramsay Monument.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as The Mound (foot) and Gallery Shop.

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