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204  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA

Street-by-Street: South Kensington

A clutch of museums and colleges provides 7 Royal College of Art
this area with its dignified character. David Hockney and Peter
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park Blake are among the great K E N S I N G T O N G O R E
was so successful that in the following years artists who trained here.
smaller exhibitions were held here, just to
its south. By the end of the 19th century The former Royal
some of these had become permanent College of Organists
was decorated by F W
museums, housed in grandiose buildings Moody in 1876.
celebrating Victorian self-confidence.

6 . Royal Albert Hall
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by selling seats on a I N E
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1 . Natural History I T
Museum I B
The dinosaur X H
exhibits are E
one of the
museum’s
most popular
attractions.
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2 . Science Museum
Visitors here can experiment
with the interactive displays. C R O M W E L L G A R D E N S

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