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Plus, six much free-to-enter attractions for teenagers successful the capital
- Caroline McGuire, Head Of Travel - Digital
- Published: 14:52, 28 Nov 2024
- Updated: 14:54, 28 Nov 2024
ONE of the UK’s best-loved museums is opening a immense caller ‘cabinet of curiosities’ attraction adjacent year.
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), volition motorboat the V&A East Storehouse successful the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park successful Stratford, East London, connected May 31, 2025.
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The venue volition beryllium packed afloat of much than fractional a cardinal taste treasures successful assorted exhibitions readying 4 floors.
It volition amusement disconnected everything from Elton John’s costumes and retro shot shirts, to vintage Glastonbury memorabilia.
It’ll besides diagnostic a immense new David Bowie exhibition, opening successful September 2025, with much than 80,000 items from the star’s life.
As good arsenic showcasing their objects, it volition amusement visitors what happens down the scenes successful a depository - wherefore and however they cod objects and however they look aft them.
And you’ll beryllium capable to spot conservators preserving items similar clothing, paintings and puppets.
The purpose-built location volition see much than 250,000 objects, 350,000 room books and 1,000 archives from the V&A’s collections
According to the caller website: “Because the V&A’s collections span 5,000 years of quality creativity, the squad astatine Storehouse cares for everything from the pins utilized to unafraid a 17th period ruff to a two-storey conception of a maisonette level from the Robin Hood Gardens lodging estate, demolished successful 2017.
“The sheer standard of Storehouse means it is present imaginable to spot different immense artefacts, including The Kaufmann Office (the lone implicit Frank Lloyd Wright interior extracurricular of the US) and the spectacular 15th-century gilded woody ceiling from the now-lost Torrijos Palace successful Toledo, Spain.”
In a world-first, the centre volition besides connection an ‘Order an Object experience,’ which lets visitors publication successful beforehand to spot a circumstantial point up close, on with an experienced subordinate of staff.
The Storehouse volition unfastened a abbreviated locomotion from the caller V&A East Museum, which is scheduled to unfastened successful 2026.
According to the V&A website, the five-storey depository "will contiguous large shows celebrating the starring artists, designers and performers of our time."
Given its determination successful eastbound London immoderate of the galleries volition wage homage to the area's originative and manufacturing heritage, and it volition besides clasp festivals, exhibitions, unrecorded performances and pop-ups.
Six much free-to-enter attractions for teenagers successful the capital
Arty teens volition love the Tate Modern on the South Bank - with its postulation of modern and modern paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations from artists astir the world, including Picasso and Matisse.
For the much accepted creation lover, there’s the Tate Britain near Pimlico. It contains everything from Pre-Raphaelite paintings to artwork by David Hockney. And it has the largest postulation of artworks by Turner.
Take a locomotion done Tower Hill to see the London Wall - disposable remnants of the Roman partition that was built by the Romans successful AD 200 astir the larboard of Londinium. While not overmuch of it is near now, this partition shaped what radical thought of arsenic London for astir 1,000 years.
The Wallace Collection in Marylebone’s Manchester Square is an oculus opener some for its stunning paintings, sculptures, ceramics, furnishings and armour, arsenic good the expansive location they’re housed successful - erstwhile the London location of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford.
Chose from much than 95,000 British films and tv shows to ticker for escaped astatine The BFI Southbank’s Mediatheque. Choose thing to ticker and a booth to beryllium in, and plug yourself in.
Track down the champion places to see thoroughfare creation successful London, including works by Banksy and the colourful Leake Street Arches. Depending connected wherever you’re based determination are a fig of self-guided thoroughfare creation maps disposable online, and a fig of free guided tours too.
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