Museum
The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
Greek Revival temple of art founded by artists who broke away from a rival institution.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Royal Scottish Academy on Edinburgh's Mound follows eleven painters, one architect and one sculptor who met in a rented room in 1826, frustrated by the elitism of the rival Royal Institution, and staged their own breakaway academy. It traces how the upstarts won royal backing, from Queen Victoria's 1838 charter to architect William Playfair's temple, its foundations sunk on two thousand piles driven into a drained loch.
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