An academy of sciences is a type of learned society or academy dedicated to sciences that may or may not be state funded. Some state funded academies are national, or royal as a form of honor.
Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm
The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters along the Mariankatu street in Helsinki
The Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, D.C., one of several facilities where the National Academy of Sciences maintains offices
Slovak Academy of Sciences (Presidium Building)
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was
Academy of sciences
…Finland Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters Finnish Academy of Science and Letters France – French Academy of Sciences Georgia Georgian National Academy of Sciences Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences…
A heroic depiction of the activities of the Academy from 1698
Louis XIV visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences (Sébastien Leclerc I, France, 1671)
Illustration from Acta Eruditorum (1737) where was published Machines et inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences
The Institut de France in Paris where the academy is housed