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Opening Hours
Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday: 10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday: 10:00 – 18:00
Thursday: 10:00 – 18:00
Friday: 10:00 – 21:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 18:00
What's not to miss inside?
Summer Exhibition
The world’s longest-running open call (since 1769)Thousands of works—from students to Royal Academicians—hung frame-to-frame in joyful chaos.
📍 Main galleries, June–August
The Taddei Tondo
The only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in the UKA tender, unfinished roundel—chisel marks still alive across Christ, the Infant St John and Mary.
📍 Collection Gallery (check daily location)
Collection Highlights
Academy history in portraits and prize piecesReynolds to Hockney—self-images of an institution that’s always argued with itself.
📍 Burlington House, collection room
Architecture Studio
The RA is also an architecture schoolModels, materials and city-scale questions shown plainly enough to argue with.
📍 Dedicated project space
🤓 Fun Facts
The Summer Exhibition has run every year since 1769—even through wars—making it the world’s longest continuous open-submission show.
Michelangelo’s ‘Taddei Tondo’ is the only marble by the artist in the UK; its unfinished surface preserves his working process.
The RA Schools, a three-year postgraduate programme, is the oldest art school in Britain and historically offered free tuition to its students.
