Victoria and Albert Museum - Prices, opening hours, news, events and exhibitions
About the Victoria and Albert Museum
One of the big museums of London, the V&A is primarily devoted to the arts and fashions.
It houses a large number of galleries, housing everything from interior furniture, to decorations and artwork.
The cast room is famous for its vast plaster cast models of famous international monuments, and a number of originals will be found in the medieval galleries.
Overseas collections are included, mostly from Asia, with some European.
The museum regularly has paid-for large exhibitions as well.
IMPORTANT - Although venues are reopening, their hours may differ from normal, and most now need prebooking before you visit.
Address
Victoria and Albert Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London,
SW7 2RL
This exhibition explores master goldsmith, Carl Fabergé – who symbolised Russian craftsmanship, luxury and elegance – and the Anglo-Russian relationship which saw the opening of a London branch in 1903.
Featuring highlights from the museum's manuscripts collection, this exhibition explores the types of books illuminations came from and the 19th-century context in which they were cut up and collected.
10am to 5:45pm
South Kensington
Ends on Sun 8th May
2021-12-29
2022-05-08
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Fequently asked questions
What's the nearest railway station to Victoria and Albert Museum
The nearest station is South Kensington which is 0.2 miles away.
An exhibition in the V&A museum at the moment is both a delight to the eye, and a reminder of how people would often chop medieval books up and sell off the nice pages as collectables.
This is a big exhibition about the smallest things — a huge space given over to tiny jewels of almost infinite fame. Over 200 treasures all by the iconic jeweller, Fabergé.
As part of an exhibition about the famous Russian jewellery maker, one of the ‘missing’ eggs created by Fabergé that was lost for many years will go on display in London.
A large gallery in the V&A museum has been given a major refurbishment and swept away pale grey walls for a richer darker look that really brings out the artwork on the walls.
The big three – the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A Museum have all announced the dates they will reopen following the lockdown.
The UK’s only known example of a late Medieval jewelled cluster brooch, discovered by a metal detectorist in 2017 has gone on display in the V&A Museum.
As much as the play itself and the actors, one of the dominant features of a play or musical is the stage design, and an exhibition is currently looking at that aspect of the stage performance.
A corridor in the V&A Museum is lined with small pencil drawings, showing a young Beatrix Potter experimenting with the ideas which would form her later books.
Of all the great achievements of the 20th century, food has to be one of the greatest — not just the abundance of it, but how prices today are a fraction of what they used to cost. But at what cost to the environment?
In this the 200th anniversary of the births of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the V&A museum has put Queen Victoria’s famous coronet on display after it was saved from being sold overseas.
Ever since it was built in 1873, there’s been a tantalizing door inside the V&A Museum that normally locked, and only very occasionally opened — but now is open all the time.
The V&A says that it has acquired one of the most important examples of modern lighting ever designed in the UK, a joint creation of artist Salvador Dalí and his most important British patron, Edward James.
