Gresham College - founded in 1537 - offers free evening lectures on a variety of subjects led by world class experts.
All of their talks are uploaded to their YouTube channel so they can be enjoyed even if you’re not in London.
The Royal Academy of Arts is a charitable society and art school most famous for their annual Summer Exhibition, for which anyone can submit art to be displayed in their galleries.
As well as paid exhibitions there are often free collections on display towards the back of the building - it is a bit of a maze.
A charitable organisation that has been hosting scientific lectures for over 200 years, most famously the annual Christmas Lecture for families, broadcast on television.
There’s a museum in the basement dedicated to Michael Faraday. It is interesting but small - really something to do on the way to a talk.
The Royal Society is a serious, working academic institution and, as nice as everyone was, I did feel like I wasn’t really supposed to be visiting.
The only other person in the exhibition space was doing a TV interview on their laptop. 😬
During the summer they open up with family friendly science exhibitions which are really the events that most people visit for.
