Victoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria & Albert Museum is famous all over the world by its abbreviated nomenclature - V&A. The V&A of London city is a veritable treasure of design and decorative art items. It houses a permanent collection of more than 4.5 million art objects, in its sumptuous precinct. Its origin goes back to the year 1852 as the South Kensington Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum is spread over twelve and half acres of land, and houses 148 art galleries in its bosom. It has a magnificent collection of art and design items spanning from 5000 years old artifacts, traversing from ancient to modern times. Its magnificent collection of art and design items is from every medium under the sun. This eclectic art repository boasts of rare collections from diverse cultures like North Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
The Victoria & Albert Museum is situated in London's "Albertopolis" - an area which is immensely rich in terms of culture, science and education. V & A has for its neighbors, world renowned institutes like Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. Its collection of sculpture, furniture, ceramics, photographs, glasswork, drawings, textiles, prints and printmaking, costumes, jewellery, medieval art objects, silver and ironwork artifacts is the best and largest in the whole world. The museum has a holding of world's biggest collection of Italian renaissance art items, and post-classical sculpture art. Its Asian art collection department is a veritable treasure house of art works from Islam, China, Korea, South Asia and Japan.
Entrance to Victoria and Albert Museum has been made free from the year 2001, which was also a landmark year of change for V&A. An year, when it embarked on an overwhelming effort to overhaul its existing departments and introduce many new features.
Visiting The Victoria & Albert Museum:
Address: Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cost: Free
Time: 10.00 to 17.45 daily, 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays
Nearest Underground Stations:
South Kensington Tube (5 minutes)
Gloucester Road Tube (11 minutes)
For more information on Victoria & Albert Museum, please visit : www.vam.ac.uk
What's on at Victoria & Albert Museum:
China Design Now
15th March '08 until 13th July '08
Explores China's designs in the field of fashion, architecture, graphics and its influences on architecture, fashion, youth culture and graphics, film, photography, furniture design, and digital media.
Fashion v Sport
5th Aug to 23rd Nov '08
Intriguing exhibition set out to investigate the increasingly fine line between sports and fashion in sportswear itself.
The Victoria & Albert Museum is situated in London's "Albertopolis" - an area which is immensely rich in terms of culture, science and education. V & A has for its neighbors, world renowned institutes like Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. Its collection of sculpture, furniture, ceramics, photographs, glasswork, drawings, textiles, prints and printmaking, costumes, jewellery, medieval art objects, silver and ironwork artifacts is the best and largest in the whole world. The museum has a holding of world's biggest collection of Italian renaissance art items, and post-classical sculpture art. Its Asian art collection department is a veritable treasure house of art works from Islam, China, Korea, South Asia and Japan.
Entrance to Victoria and Albert Museum has been made free from the year 2001, which was also a landmark year of change for V&A. An year, when it embarked on an overwhelming effort to overhaul its existing departments and introduce many new features.
Visiting The Victoria & Albert Museum:
Address: Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cost: Free
Time: 10.00 to 17.45 daily, 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays
Nearest Underground Stations:
South Kensington Tube (5 minutes)
Gloucester Road Tube (11 minutes)
For more information on Victoria & Albert Museum, please visit : www.vam.ac.uk
What's on at Victoria & Albert Museum:
China Design Now
15th March '08 until 13th July '08
Explores China's designs in the field of fashion, architecture, graphics and its influences on architecture, fashion, youth culture and graphics, film, photography, furniture design, and digital media.
Fashion v Sport
5th Aug to 23rd Nov '08
Intriguing exhibition set out to investigate the increasingly fine line between sports and fashion in sportswear itself.
