The Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street
Mayfair
London
Greater London
W1S 4BS
England
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+44 (0) 20 7409 2992
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+44 (0) 20 7670 2920
For over 200 years, the RI has been ‘diffusing science for the common purposes of life’.
Venue Type:
Museum, Science centre
Additional info
The Archive Reading Room is open to the public by appointment, Mon-Wed, 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00.
Includes the original apparatus and papers of many of those who have researched, lectured and lived at the Royal Institution including Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, John Tyndall, James Dewar, William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg and George Porter. The collection also includes important collections of iconographical material in various media, scientific instruments, as well as a large administrative archive, covering all aspects of the work of the Royal Institution.
Collection details
Science and Technology, Natural Sciences, Archives
Key artists and exhibits
- Michael Faraday
- Induction Ring
- Volta's Battery
- Humphry Davy
- Davy Lamp
- Count Rumford
- James Dewar
- Dewar Flask
- John Tyndall
- William Henry Bragg
- William Lawrence Bragg
- X-ray Spectrometer
- Lysozyme
- Laboratory
BIG science
Comedian and science songstress Helen Arney takes on the biggest of the big: The human genome! The known universe! Justin Bieber’s fanbase! Joined by an eclectic bunch of performers and scientists, including comedian, improviser and ex-physicist Richard Vranch, there’ll be plenty of jokes, songs and experiments from the Ri archive. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 16-17
- 18+
When
7-8:30pm
Admission
Tickets are £10 standard, £7 concessions and £5 Associates. Members go free.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1478
Capturing reality with fictional models
The development of electromagnetism by Faraday and Maxwell had its origins in a purely fictional model. Philosopher Margaret Morrison explores how fictional models in physics may function as a source of information, and how they differ from their literary counterparts. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 18+
When
7-8:30pm
Admission
Tickets are £10 standard, £7 concessions and £5 Associates. Members go free.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1487
Small Science
Helen Arney examines small science: the obscure, the overlooked and the downright teeny tiny. With experiments from the Ri’s archives, guest scientists and performers including award-winning juggler and variety star Mat Ricardo, this show will reach the parts that others science events don’t reach. WARNING: may contain Higgs...For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 16-17
- 18+
- Not suitable for children
When
7-8:30pm
Admission
Tickets are £10.00 standard, £7.00 concessions and £5.00 Associates. Members go free.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1480
Scent of space
Marek Kukula and Odette Toilette exercise your nostrils on an interactive tour of the smells of the cosmos. From the acid clouds of Venus to the oily seas of Saturn’s moon Titan and beyond, all smells are accompanied by astonishing visuals from the Royal Observatory's current exhibition, Visions of the Universe. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 18+
- 16-17
- 14-15
When
7-8:30pm
Admission
Tickets are £10 standard, £7 concessions and £5 Associates. Members go free.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1465
Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
At the turn of the 20th century Einstein changed the way we think about time. By the beginning of the 21st his thinking is now shaping one of the key scientific and technological wonders of contemporary life: atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made. Nobel Prize winning physicist William Phillips explains how these ultra accurate clocks are still being improved with super cooled atoms - better to than a second in 100 million years. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 18+
- 16-17
- Not suitable for children
When
8-9:15pm
Admission
£15.00.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1481
Computing with quantum cats: From colossus to qubits
Science writer John Gribbin gives an account of the nature of quantum reality, arguing for a universe of many parallel worlds where ‘everything is real’. Looking back to Alan Turing’s work on the Enigma machine and the first electronic computer, John explains how quantum theory developed to make quantum computers work in practice as well as telling us what this means for the future of technology. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 18+
- 16-17
- 14-15
When
7-8:30pm
Admission
Tickets are £10 standard, £7 concessions and £5 Associates. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1482
Everest: Survival at the extremes
Greg Foot explores the physiology of high-altitude survival and introduces a group of doctors going to extremes on a scientific adventure to help save critically ill patients back home. This family friendly, demo-rich show will include exercise physiology and the genetics of fitness, the equipment and survival techniques used in high-altitude expeditions, plus hypoxia and its uses in intensive care medicine. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 7-10
- 11-13
- 14-15
When
6-7:30pm
Admission
Tickets are £10 standard, £7 concessions and £5 Associates. Members go free.
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=1483
Ri Summer School
If you fancy getting stuck into science over the summer holidays, don't miss the 2013 Ri Summer School.
There's three weeks of day-long and week-long workshops for students aged 7 - 18 in science, maths, engineering and computer science. For more information and to book visit www.rigb.org.
Suitable for
- 7-10
- 11-13
- 14-15
- 16-17
Website
http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000007199
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