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Open House Festival: The British Academy
September 15, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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The London-wide Open House Festival celebrates the city’s most exciting architecture, and The British Academy’s beautiful Grade I-listed, John Nash designed townhouse will open its doors with historical, art, and architectural tours. Guided tours will be offered by Academy staff and pre-booked tours with the prestigious Wright & Wright Architects who have thoughtfully re-designed the space. Visitors can also explore the building at their own pace, using the new digital guide by Bloomberg Connects.
There will be a free digital photography exhibition which will be the first ever ‘British Academy Book Prize Photography Exhibition’, commissioned in response to last year’s British Academy Book Prize winner. Arko Datto, an award-winning photographer based in India, has been commissioned by Panos Pictures to visually interpret the 2023 Book Prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das, through a contemporary lens.
The British Academy’s sister academy for science, The Royal Society, located a stone’s throw from The British Academy, will also open its doors for the Open House Festival, allowing a unique opportunity for visits to the historic headquarters of two centuries-old institutions of knowledge and research.
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