In the past six months the RIBA has lent many objects to institutions around the world. They have been lent to a wide variety of exhibitions focusing on a range of subjects from the art historical to the contemporary.

Baths of Agrippa, Andrea Palladio
RIBA Library Drawings and Archives
Copyright: RIBa Library Drawings and Archives
Palladio 500
CISA Andrea Palladio, Vicenza
19 September 2008-06 January 2009
Royal Academy, London, 31 January 2009-13 April 2009
This exhibition comes in the year of the quincentenary of Andrea Palladio's birth. It is a major exhibtion looking at the life and works of one of the most important architects of the renaissance period. The RIBA are contributing over 60 objects to the exhibtion and are the major lenders.

Keeling House by Sir Denys Lasdun
RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collections
Copyright: On loan from Lady Lasdun
Dan Dare and the birth of Hi-tech Britain
Science Museum, London, 30 April 2008 - 25 October 2009
This exhibition explores the role played by technology in creating Post-war Britain. The RIBA lent a model of Keeling House by Denys Lasdun.

Chinese Fishing Pavilion by S S Teulon
RIBA Library Drawings and Archives
Copyright: RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collections
Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, 3 May 2008 - 2 November 2008
The RIBA is lending three drawings to this exhibition on the fashion for Chinoiserie in Britain. The exhibition will take place in the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery as well as the Royal Pavilion.

Design for Euston Station by Philip Hardwick
Copyright: RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collections
Napoleon III et Victoria, A Visit to the Paris 1855 World Fair
Musee National du Chateau de Compeigne, Paris 3 October 2008-19 January 2009
This exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of Napoleon's birth. The aim of the exhibition is to emphasise the strength of the relations between France and Great Britain during the Second Empire. The RIBA is lending three objects.
Borrowing from the RIBA
The RIBA considers sympathetically all requests for loans but as a Designated Collection (MLA), we can only lend to institutions that meet the required conditions of security and environment set out in the Conditions of Loan.
The Conditions of Loan document is available to view as a pdf file and can also be obtained by contacting the RIBA British Architectural Library.
All loans are subjected to a loan fee of £380. This is to cover administration costs, conservation, mounting and framing of objects.
To borrow an object from the collection please send a written request to:
Assistant Director (Drawings and Archives Collections)
RIBA British Architectural Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
SW7 2RL
Further information
If you require further information about any of our holdings or services, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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