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Museum director Leonie Bell said the exhibitions will celebrate the incredible diversity and potential of design. V&A Dundee to host major exhibitions on dancer Michael Clark and on plastic Skip ...
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 children. In 2024 it was awarded the Museum of the Year prize. [2]
A new permanent exhibition, Stories from the Building, which looks at the background and architecture of the museum, opened on 15 September 2023. In January 2024, it was announced that the V&A Dundee would only host one major exhibition a year, in a cost-cutting exercise. [15]
On 15 September 2018, the first V&A museum outside London, V&A Dundee, opened. [9] The museum, built at a cost of £80.11m, is located on Dundee's waterfront, and is focused on Scottish design, furniture, textiles, fashion, architecture, engineering and digital design. [ 40 ]
It is part of the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter entrance and expansion of the Museum, completed in 2017 and designed by architectural practice AL_A, the firm of architect Amanda Levete. [ 2 ] The courtyard opens out onto the street ( Exhibition Road ) through a perforated entrance gate.
The exhibition's title reflects the lyric "I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains", from the song "Nobody Home", on The Wall.It was promoted with media appearances by all three surviving band members (David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters), and designer Aubrey Powell; [6] as well as the flying of an inflatable pig over the V&A, [5] and at the BBC's Broadcasting House.
V&A Digital Futures is a series of events organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the area of digital art. Digital Futures events are organized by Irini Papadimitriou of the V&A, [ 1 ] who started the events in 2012, [ 2 ] some at the V&A museum itself [ 3 ] and some elsewhere around London especially [ 4 ] but also elsewhere in ...
The success of the show at the V&A museum resulted in the decision to take the exhibit on tour, and it has sold roughly two million tickets across 11 cities around the world as of March 2018. [5] As of 2018, the David Bowie Is exhibition holds the record for being the most visited exhibit in the V&A Museum's history.