What do the largest Picasso painting in the world, Punky Vivienne Westwood Apparel, pins for securing a 17th-century villains and a complete interior of Frank Lloyd Wright in common? That will be the VK Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, or the V&AThe world’s largest collection of design and applied and decorative art.
In South Kensington, the Paleis-like museum has been informed of visitors since 1852, and in recent decades the institution has been enormously expanded, with locations such as the Young V&A in Bethnal Green, the Wedgwood collection in Stoke-on-Rent, the Scheepsige V & A Dundee Elib.
Tensioning 5000 years of human creativity through hundreds of thousands of objects requires a lot of space. Instead of hiding it all in a dark warehouse, the new storage place takes over part of the former Olympic Media Center from 2012 and offers a specially built house for more than 250,000 objects, 350,000 library books and 1,000 archives from the various V&A collections.
The best part? You can visit! Storehouse organizes workshops, impressions, versions and pop-up displays of special collections, together with the possibility of observing curators at work to maintain a wide range of cultural heritage objects.
Read more than 100 compound mini display through the entire building and book in advance to become up to and personal by the Order an obstruction experience. Choose each object in storage and a member of the Collection Access team will help you to communicate safely with everything, from artworks to textile to musical instruments.
Plan your visit to the V&A website.
V & a objected object is Althea Mcinh, “Rubra” (1961), Furnishing
