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Victoria & Albert Museum

Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone ofIn 2001 the restored British Galleries
the Museum on 17th May 1899. The Victoria &reopened to the public. These cover British
Albert has a collection of more than 4art and design from 1500 - 1900 and include
million objects. The Victoria & Albert MuseumJames II's wedding suit and the Great Bed of
in London is the world's largest museum ofWare. The Victoria & Albert, which held its
the decorative arts and has 146 galleries,first photographic exhibition in 1858, is
including national collections of sculpture,also the home of the National Collection of
furniture, fashion and photographs. It alsoArt of Photography. The Canon Photography
houses the National Art Library. The VictoriaGallery  has  regularly  changing  displays.
& Albert also manage the Bethnal Green Museum
of Childhood, the Wellington Museum at ApsleyThe fifteen galleries of the Victoria &
House and the Theatre Museum in CoventAlbert Museum tell the story of British
Garden.design from the Tudor period to the Victorian
era and display the Victoria & Albert's
The Victoria & Albert is the world's greatestunrivalled collection of historic British
museum of art and design. The Museum isfurniture, textiles, dress, ceramics, glass,
renowned for the immense diversity of itsjewellery, silver, prints, paintings and
collections, which embrace furniture,sculpture. Every major name in the history of
fashion, textiles, paintings, silver, glass,British design is represented, including
ceramics, jewellery, books, prints andGrinling Gibbons, Robert Adam, William Morris
photographs. Housed in magnificent Victorianand Charles Rennie Mackintosh as well as
buildings, these collections illustrate theworkshops and manufacturers such as the
artistic life of many different cultures,Mortlake tapestry works, Spitalfields silks
from European to South East Asian, Americanweaving workshops, Wedgwood, Doulton and
to  Islamic,  over  hundreds  of generations.Liberty.
The museum has been housed in Aston Webb'sThe Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has
grand building since 1909. The building hasstarted work on a new jewellery gallery that
a impressive facade and main entrance. Asis planned to open in 2008. Jewels from 2000
the museum grew new buildings were erectedsc to the present, drawn from a pool of five
when needed. Many of these buildings werethousand, will include an ancient Egyptian
intended to be semi-permanent exhibitionhippopotamus, Elizabethan pendants, Marie
halls but all have survived and represent oneAntoinette's bracelet clasps, jewels owned by
of the finest groups of Victorian buildingsNapoleon and Catherine the Great, as well as
in the country. The Victoria & Albert hasthis nineteenth-century English bodice
around four million exhibits from all periodsornament, a diamond bouquet of roses, a
and areas of the world. The 145 ofcarnation, a chrysanthemum and a fuchsia, set
galleries cover ten acres and are spread overon springs so they tremble as the wearer
four  floors.moves.
The Art and Design galleries are arranged byThe transformation of the British Galleries
themes and by place and date, for example theis the Victoria & Albert's largest project
Materials & Techniques galleries are arrangedfor over half a century and with over 3000
by the type of material. The six-storeyexhibits on display in magnificent new
Henry Cole Wing holds the Victoria & Albert'ssurroundings, the result is a truly
collection of paintings, drawings and prints.exceptional experience not to be missed.



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