Victoria and Albert Museum

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.

Address

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

Admission Charges

Entry is FREE

Link to Victoria and Albert Museum's website

Victoria and Albert Museum Opening Hours

This Week

Sun

20th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Mon

21st May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Tues

22nd May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Wed

23rd May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Thur

24th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Fri

25th May

10:00am - 10:00pm

Sat

26th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Next Week

Sun

27th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Mon

28th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Tues

29th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Wed

30th May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Thur

31st May

10:00am - 5:45pm

Fri

1st Jun

10:00am - 10:00pm

Sat

2nd Jun

10:00am - 5:45pm

Forthcoming Events at Victoria and Albert Museum

Free Anthony Crickmay: Photographing People and Performance - BSL users only (Friday, 25th May)

Explore the work of internationally acclaimed photographer Anthony Crickmay, including photographs of theatre, fashion, Morocco, and Crickmay’s principal interests, dance and portraiture, where he r

£15 Rob Ryan: I Made It With My Hands (Wednesday, 30th May)

To mark the publication of a major retrospective of his work, artist Rob Ryan will be speaking about his journey over the last 30 years

£15 "It's Alive!" - The First Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein (Friday, 1st Jun)

Christopher Frayling takes a look at the history of this character as seen through visual culture.

Free Culture in Crisis: Qsar Es-Saïd Art Museum Project (Friday, 1st Jun)

Taking on the complex legacy of heritage institutions in the country; through precolonial, postcolonial and subsequently revolutionary times, Moumni explores the work taking place to transforming Qsar

£15 Art as Jewellery with Louisa Guinness (Monday, 4th Jun)

From Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso to Anish Kapoor and Grayson Perry, many of the great figures of modern and contemporary art have turned their thoughts and talent to jewellery

Free Lunchtime Lecture: V&A Artist in Residence: Responding to museum data (Wednesday, 6th Jun)

Rachel Ara is the V&A Research Institute’s current artist in residence

£15 Saturday Night Fever Pitch (Friday, 8th Jun)

Simon Doonan examines the beautiful game through the lens of fashion, celebrating the magic and madness of its culture with a laser wit

£20 Giles Deacon: GilesSølveKatie (Monday, 11th Jun)

Join fashion designer Giles Deacon (who is featured in the V&A’s ‘Fashioned from Nature’ exhibition), photographer and film-maker Sølve Sundsbø, and Katie Grand, editor in chief of Love ma

Free Lunchtime Lecture: Strong and Courageous Women Create an Exhibition (Wednesday, 13th Jun)

Hackney women explore their experiences of motherhood with Hackney Museum, in collaboration with Bump Buddies (Shoreditch Trust), and supported by the V&A

£12 Thursday Curator Talk: Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up (Thursday, 14th Jun)

Join co-curators Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa for a look at the development of this exhibition, which will display clothes and objects owned by Frida Kahlo that have been locked away for 50 year