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Welcome to the family of art, design and performance museums, where everyone is invited to enjoy the power of creativity.
Plan your visit to the V&A family of museums. Our venues in South Kensington, Bethnal Green, Dundee and Stoke-on-Trent are open and free to visit now.
Nearest Underground stations: South Kensington (5-minute walk), Gloucester Road (10-minute walk). Victoria Station (35-minute walk) Bike-hire is available at Exhibition Road and Thurloe Place. Several bus routes stop at V&A South Kensington – see tfl.gov.uk for details. Find out about parking around the V&A.
Plan your visit. Welcome to V&A South Kensington, a world of creativity in the heart of London. From unmissable exhibitions to extraordinary collections, there is something for everyone at the global destination for art, design and performance.
Sep 8, 2011 · Exhibitions, displays, courses – plus events for V&A Members. See What's on at the V&A venues, and online.
From its early beginnings as a Museum of Manufactures in 1852, to the foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1899, to today's state-of-the-art galleries, the museum has constantly evolved in its collecting and public interpretation of art and design.
From ancient Chinese ceramics to Alexander McQueen evening dresses, take an incredible journey through 5000 years of human creativity with our online collections.
We make as much information available as we can and continually enrich and update the database. New text and images are added daily. The V&A's collections also include the National Art Library and the V&A Archives. There is more about the Beta release and Explore the Collections on our blog.
The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V&A as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the Museum's 19th-century interiors.
From its early beginnings as a Museum of Manufactures in 1852, to the foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1899, to today's state-of-the-art galleries, the museum has constantly evolved in its collecting and public interpretation of art and design.
