Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.
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.
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Victoria and Albert Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London,
SW7 2RL
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More tickets released for the V&A’s sold-out Chanel exhibition
