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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 ]
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 .
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]
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.
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.
The material mainly features Albert’s private and official papers and correspondence from 1841 to the year of his death 1861.
Lambeth Archives is an archive in South London, managed by the London Borough of Lambeth. [1] Containing records of Lambeth businesses, organisations and individuals. Until 2023, for 133 years the Lambeth Archives collections were housed at Minet Library, 52 Knatchbull Road. In February 2024, Lambeth Archives reopened at its new purpose built ...
The Victoria Tower, the largest tower of the Palace of Westminster. By the early 19th century the House of Commons archive was extensive, but on the night of 16 October 1834 almost the entire stock—with the vital exception of the Commons Journals—was consumed in the "tally stick fire", which destroyed a great part of the fabric of the Palace of Westminster.