Albertopolis

Albertopolis is the nickname given to the area centred on Exhibition Road in London, named after Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria.

[2] Prince Albert was a driving force behind the Great Exhibition and President of the Royal Commission, and the name "Albertopolis" seems to have been coined in the 1850s[2] to celebrate and somewhat satirise his role in Victorian cultural life.

It was revived by architectural historians in the 1960s and popularised by the nascent conservation movement to bring attention to the complex of public Victorian buildings and the surrounding houses built on the Commissioners' estate, that were threatened with demolition by the expansion and redevelopment plans of Imperial College.

This regular geometric alignment of Albertopolis can be observed readily only from the balconies of the Queen's Tower (very rarely open to visitors), although the northern part can be glimpsed from the top floor of the Science Museum.

The subway was originally intended to go as far as the Royal Albert Hall, but the construction of the Imperial Institute meant the tunnel emerged at the Science Museum where it exits onto Exhibition Road.

Aerial view of Albertopolis, South Kensington. The Albert Memorial , Royal Albert Hall and Royal College of Art are visible near the top; the Victoria and Albert Museum and Natural History Museum at the lower end; Imperial College , the Royal College of Music , and Science Museum lying in between.
The Albert Memorial .
The Royal Albert Hall .
The Victoria and Albert Museum .
The Natural History Museum