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V&A East is a planned branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. [1] It is one of two branches of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the other being Young V&A. V&A East will form part of the East Bank development at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. [2]
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. [3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .
It was a branch of the UK's national museum of applied arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum. It opened in 1974 and closed in 2007, being replaced by new galleries at the V&A's main site in South Kensington. [1] The Theatre Museum told the story of the performing arts in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present.
The National Art Library (NAL) is a major reference library, situated in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), a museum of decorative arts in London. The NAL holds the UK's most comprehensive collection of both books as art and books about art, which includes many genres and time periods. [ 1 ]
Young V&A, formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood, is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum (the "V&A"), which is the United Kingdom's national museum of applied arts. . It is in Bethnal Green in the East End of London, and specialises in objects by and for childr
In the centre of the chapel is a monument to Edward, Duke of Kent, Victoria's father. He died in 1820 and is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor. One of the sculptures is of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Saxon dress, commissioned after Prince Albert's death and executed by William Theed (1804–91).
The material mainly features Albert’s private and official papers and correspondence from 1841 to the year of his death 1861.
In 2018, the Victoria & Albert Museum launched a research project examining the provenance of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, a notable collection of works of European decorative art. The Gilbert Collection comprises 1,000 items, including gold and silver pieces, snuffboxes, portrait miniatures, pietre dure, and micro mosaics.