victoria and albert museum
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Victoria and Albert Museum
• Often abbreviated as the V&A
• One of the largest and most visited museum in the world
• Located in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London – “Albertopolis“
• Entrance to museum is free, support of Department of Culture, Media and Sport
The foundation• Origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851• Profits from the Exhibition were used to
establish the Museum• Established in 1852• Former names- Museum of
Manufactures, South Kensington Museum • 1889 Victoria and Albert Museum (named after Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert)
Architecture of the museum• Construction started during victorian period• The museum grew rapidly – new building added• Sir Aston Webb
The collections• 145 galleries• There are over 6.5 million
objects• Focused on art (cultures of
Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.• Ceramics, costumes, silver,
ironwork, jewellery, prints, photographs...
BOOKS• 750,000 books,
photographs, drawings, paintings, and prints.• illuminated manuscripts• early editions in Greek
and Latin of the poets and playwrights• manuscripts of the most
famous British writers • 4,200 comics
Book of Hours
Leonardo da Vinci´s Foster Codices
FASHION• 14,000 outfits, accessories, costume
sketches and design notebooks• Clothes worn throughout history
(medieval vestments, famous designers works)
Wedding suit worn by James II
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