Tour of the RAI archives and exhibition

The RAI invites you to attend a short presentation of the institute and its archives, an introduction to the benefits of the Student Fellowship and a tour of the current exhibition: GRID – anthropometric photographs and potential history.

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology. The RAI is the custodian of a rich collection of archival and manuscript materials, and a unique photographic library, most of which is available to scholars for research purposes.

The RAI is the custodian of a rich collection of archival and manuscript materials, most of which is available to scholars for research purposes. The RAI has a unique photographic library, consisting of over 75,000 historic prints, negatives, lantern-slides, drawings, paintings and other images, the earliest of which date from the 1860s.