Education guides
Our education guides accompany exhibitions in the Main Galleries and Sackler Wing of Galleries. These 24-page booklets are an introduction to the exhibition for teachers and students, discussing the central themes and some selected artworks from the exhibition in an accessible and interesting manner. Guides are given out free to teachers and full-time students with an exhibition ticket and ID at the RA Learning Desk, and are also available for purchase in the RA shop for other visitors.
Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
(10 March – 10 June 2012)
Download the education guide (3.9 MB)
Find out who's who in Zoffany's portrait of the Royal Academicians
David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture
(21 January – 9 April 2012)
Download the education guide (1.5 MB)
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915–1935
(29 October 2011 – 22 January 2012)
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Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
(17 September – 11 December 2011)
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Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century
(30 June – 2 October 2011)
Download the education guide (2.1 MB)
Watteau: The Drawings
(12 March – 5 June 2011)
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Modern British Sculpture
(22 January – 7 April 2011)
Download the education guide (2.3 MB)
Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys
(30 October – 23 January 2011)
Download the education guide (2.9 MB)
Download the Glasgow Boys Chronology (1.4 MB)
Burlington House Architecture Guide
Download the education guide (1.2 MB)
Sargent and the Sea
(10 July – 26 September 2010)
Download the education guide (2.6 MB)
Paul Sandby RA (1731–1809): Picturing Britain, A Bicentenary Exhibition
(13 March – 13 June 2010)
Download the education guide (3.5 MB)
Find out about Sandby's watercolour techniques
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
(23 January – 18 April 2010)
Download the education guide (3.8 MB)
Find out about Van Gogh's sower
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Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill
(24 October 2009 – 24 January 2010)
Download the education guide (2.0 MB)
Anish Kapoor
(26 September – 11 December 2009)
Download the education guide (2.6 MB)
Visit the exhibition microsite
J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite
(27 June – 13 September 2009)
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Find out about Waterhouse's mermaid
Kuniyoshi: From the Arthur R. Miller Collection
(21 March – 7 June 2009)
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Find out more about Kuniyoshi's street art
Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy
(31 January – 13 April 2009)
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Byzantium 330–1453
(25 October 2008 – 22 March 2009)
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Visit the exhibition microsite
Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists
(4 October 2008 – 2 January 2009)
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Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence
(28 June – 7 September 2008)
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Find out more about Vilhelm Hammershøi
Cranach
(8 March – 8 June 2008)
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From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings, 1870–1925, from Moscow and St Petersburg
(26 January – 18 April 2008)
Download the education guide (0.9 MB)
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An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy
(20 October 2007 – 27 January 2008)
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Georg Baselitz
(22 September – 9 December 2007)
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Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707–2007
(15 September – 2 December 2007)
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Impressionists by the Sea
(7 July – 30 September 2007)
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The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
(17 March – 10 June 2007)
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Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760–1830
(3 February – 20 April 2007)
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Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
(11 November 2006 – 25 February 2007)
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Rodin
(23 September 2006 – 1 January 2007)
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Modigliani and his Models
(8 July – 15 October 2006)
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Jacob Van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape
(25 February – 4 June 2006)
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China: The Three Emperors, 1662–1795
(12 November 2005 – 17 April 2006)
Download the education guide (1.6 MB)
Visit the exhibition microsite
Edvard Munch by Himself
(1 October – 11 December 2005)
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Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600
(22 January – 12 April 2005)
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Visit the exhibition microsite
William Nicholson: British Painter and Printmaker (1872–1949)
(30 October 2004 – 23 January 2005)
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Ancient Art to Post-Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
(18 September – 10 December 2004)
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Vuillard: From Post-Impressionist to Modern Master
(31 January – 18 April 2004)
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The Art of Philip Guston (1913–1980)
(24 January – 12 April 2004)
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Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection
(20 September – 12 December 2003)
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Kirchner: Expressionism and the City: Dresden and Berlin 1905–1918
(28 June – 21 September 2003)
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Masterpieces from Dresden: Mantegna and Dürer to Rubens and Canaletto
(15 March – 8 June 2003)
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Aztecs
(16 November 2002 – 11 April 2003)
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Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky: 80 Masterpieces from The Merzbacher Collection
(27 July – 17 November 2002)
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Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries
(26 April – 14 July 2002)
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Contact details for information and bookings
Online: Student Group Booking Enquiry Form
Email: groupbookings@royalacademy.org.uk
Telephone: 020 7300 5995
Fax: 020 7300 8013
