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The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 [ 1 ] members, with its work reaching the public through publications ...
The London Map Fair, established in 1980, is a two-day annual event traditionally held in June at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, London.. It brings together around 40 map dealers as exhibitors, and attracts hundreds of other dealers, curators and collectors from around the world.
Exhibition Road is a street in South Kensington, ... Royal Geographical Society, at the north end in Kensington Gore; Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, ...
Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road 51°30′04″N 0°10′29″W / 51.501086°N 0.174730°W / 51.501086; -0.174730 ( Balustrade, Royal Geographical 2004
The extension and exhibition space, seen from Exhibition Road. After Lowther died in 1912, his son sold the house [1] to the Royal Geographical Society. The Society converted the building into its headquarters and commissioned extensions, including the Society's lecture theatre, from G. L. Kennedy and F. B. Nightingale in 1928 to 1930.
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Wyld held topical exhibitions and gave lectures on current events, and attempted to transfer ownership of the attraction to the "Cosmos Institute" to establish a national geographic and ethnological museum. In 1862, when Wyld's agreement for the use of the land expired, the exhibition hall was removed and the globe broken up and sold for scrap.
Geographical (formerly The Geographical Magazine) is the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), a key associate and supporter of many famous expeditions, including those of Charles Darwin, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.