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Article: The exhibition road experience.(In Society: a round-up of news, views and recent and forthcoming events at the RGS-IBG)
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- September 1, 2006
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Home to the Society's headquarters, Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, among others, Exhibition Road in South Kensington is referred to as London's 'cultural quarter'. And the road's cultural credentials were made all the more explicit in August with the launch of the first Exhibition Road Cultural Group project, aptly named Priceless.
The project takes the form of a multi-institution, multi-location exhibition that stretches the whole length of the cultural quarter. The multiple exhibits showcase objects that define the essence, activities and soul of each of the 11 cultural institutions involved--items that are priceless by virtue of history and ...