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.

Palladio 500

LaCaixaForum, Barcelona, 19 May 2009-6 September 2009  

LaCaixaForum, Madrid, 6 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

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. The exhibition has begun the final stages of its tour with two venues in Spain.          

 

  

 

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.

 

 

Frederick, Lord Leighton (1830-1896): Painter and sculpter of the Victorian Age

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 29 May 2009 - 13 September 2009

The RIBA lent four drawings to this exhibition co-organised by Leighton House at the Museum Villa Stuck, the house of the artist prince Franz von Stuck in Munich. 

 

 

 

 

 

Surreal Things

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 9 May 2009 - 13 September 2009              

The major exhibition on Surrealism organised by the V&A goes on tour to Canada. The RIBA is lending three new objects to the tour, including this photograph with an overdrawn design for the caryatids at the Pantheon, West Dean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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 £410. 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

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