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Victoria and Albert Museum

 

About 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.

Address

Victoria and Albert Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London,
SW7 2RL


Link to Victoria and Albert Museum's website


 

Exhibitions open at the moment

Re:Imagining Musicals
This display celebrates the glittering world of musical theatre, exploring the evolution and craftmanship of iconic musicals
Re:Imagining Musicals
10am to 5:45pm
South Kensington
Closing soon Mon, 27th November
2022-10-18
2023-11-27
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style.
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
10am to 5:45pm
South Kensington
Ends on Sun 25th February 2024
2023-09-16
2024-02-25
DIVA
£20  
Expect an explosion of over the top fashions at the V&A Museum this summer, as it brings together a collection of outfits worn by celebrities under the title of "divas".
DIVA
10am to 5:45pm
South Kensington
Ends on Sun 7th April 2024
2023-06-24
2024-04-07
 

Frequently asked questions

What's the nearest railway station to Victoria and Albert Museum

The nearest station is South Kensington Tube Station which is 0.2 miles away.


Victoria and Albert Museum - Latest News

More tickets released for the V&A’s sold-out Chanel exhibition
More tickets released for the V&A’s sold-out Chanel exhibition

The V&A Museum’s exhibition dedicated to Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel sold out in a snap as soon as tickets went on sale, but they’ve released more tickets for selected dates in December and January.

From Poverty to Power: Chanel’s journey unveiled in V&A’s fashion exhibition
From Poverty to Power: Chanel’s journey unveiled in V&A’s fashion exhibition

This weekend, an exhibition opens at the V&A that you can’t visit because the demand for tickets has been so great that the earliest anyone can visit now is the middle of December.

A feast of costumes fills the V&A’s Diva exhibition
A feast of costumes fills the V&A’s Diva exhibition

We all know what a Diva is, but if asked to actually explain what makes a person a Diva, most of us would struggle to articulate what a Diva is.

V&A opens the UK’s largest permanent photography gallery
V&A opens the UK’s largest permanent photography gallery

The UK’s largest permanent photography display has been completed inside the V&A Museum in the last stage of several expansions over the past few years.

David Bowie’s archive donated to the V&A Museum
David Bowie’s archive donated to the V&A Museum

David Bowie’s archive of more than 80,000 items has been donated to the V&A Museum so that it can be conserved and go on display to the public.

Donatello delights at the V&A
Donatello delights at the V&A

Half a dozen Davids, enough Virgin Marys to fill a convent, Jesus from crib to crucified and hosts of cherubs to sing you to heaven – this is the V&A’s spring blockbuster devoted to the renaissance sculptor, Donatello.

V&A Museum doubling the size of its Photography Galleries
V&A Museum doubling the size of its Photography Galleries

The V&A Museum is doubling the size of its Photography Centre and has confirmed that the new galleries will open on 25th May 2023.

Donatello’s statue of David to go on show in London for the first time
Donatello’s statue of David to go on show in London for the first time

Donatello’s most famous marble sculpture, David is coming to the UK, as part of an exhibition of the Renaissance sculptor’s work at the V&A next year.

The muscial theatre comes to the V&A Museum
The muscial theatre comes to the V&A Museum

A new exhibition at the V&A has opened that’s should lure people up to their theatre galleries, as it tells the story of the musicals.

A special tube map is on display in the V&A Museum
A special tube map is on display in the V&A Museum

A specially modified tube map that was released last year has been added to the V&A Museum’s collection and is on display at the moment in the museum’s rapid acquisition gallery.

Sound and colour dazzle the senses as the V&A explores the Korean Wave
Sound and colour dazzle the senses as the V&A explores the Korean Wave

A joyful explosion of sound and colour marks the arrival of K-everything at the V&A Museum as it takes a look at modern Korean culture.

Hallyu! The Korean Wave comes to the V&A Museum this autumn
Hallyu! The Korean Wave comes to the V&A Museum this autumn

Korean culture will fill one of the V&A Museum’s exhibition spaces later this year as the museum looks at the popular culture of South Korea, following its early origins to its place on the global stage today.

The V&A opens its landmark Africa Fashion exhibition
The V&A opens its landmark Africa Fashion exhibition

A new exhibition at the V&A takes a look at post-colonial fashions across the African continent, showing off not just their diversity, but also how they’ve influenced Western tastes.

See Greenwich’s painted hall sketches in the V&A
See Greenwich’s painted hall sketches in the V&A

There’s an easy to miss exhibition at the V&A at the moment of the drawings by the painter, Sir James Thornhill, who amongst many things, was responsible for the Painted Hall in Greenwich.

Atmospheric photos show a lost world of British industry
Atmospheric photos show a lost world of British industry

If you were the sort of person to read trade magazines about heavy industry in the 1950s-80s, the chances are that the photos inside were taken by one man, Maurice Broomfield.

Potter mania at the V&A Museum
Potter mania at the V&A Museum

Not that Potter, but the other one, the Beatrix Potter who introduced the world to Peter Rabbit, dour Mr McGregor, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle.

A colourful confection of clothing at the V&A Museum
A colourful confection of clothing at the V&A Museum

An exhibition about clothing opens in a room of statues notable for not wearing any clothing whatsoever, and a giant fig leaf created to save Victorian ladies the sight of a pre-Adam vision of mankind.

V&A Museum to return to all-week opening
V&A Museum to return to all-week opening

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has confirmed that it will return to pre-pandemic opening hours from next month.

See the “Fragmented Illuminations” at the V&A Museum
See the “Fragmented Illuminations” at the V&A Museum

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.

V&A’s Fabergé exhibition is so much more than just eggs
V&A’s Fabergé exhibition is so much more than just eggs

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.

Fabergé egg found by a scrap dealer going on display at the V&A
Fabergé egg found by a scrap dealer going on display at the V&A

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.

Four free exhibitions to visit at the V&A Museum
Four free exhibitions to visit at the V&A Museum

There’s a number of temporary free exhibitions at the moment within the V&A museum, which are worth a trip to the museum in their own right.

A moody makeover for the V&A’s Raphael Court
A moody makeover for the V&A’s Raphael Court

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.

Tickets to visit the V&A museum now available
Tickets to visit the V&A museum now available

Following a year of stop-start closures, the V&A Museum says that it will reopen its doors to visitors on Wednesday 19th May 2021.

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