V&A East Storehouse Is a Genuinely Radical New Museum

London Design Museum Turns its Massive Warehouse Collection into Another Museum—with 250K Items

In London, organizers and staff have flipped a museum. Suddenly, the collection is the museum, and the exhibitions are whatever you decide. At V&A East Storehouse, over 250,000 items sit inside carefully constructed storage warehouse wings waiting for a day that might have never came: the call that they would be included in a new […] The post London Design Museum Turns its Massive Warehouse Collection into Another Museum—with 250K Items appeared…

The V&A’s ‘Order an Object’ Program Gets You Eye-to-Eye With Fashion History

Photo by Bet Bettencourt, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert MuseumIf you’ve ever left a fashion exhibition wishing you could take a closer look at the pieces on display, then you’re in luck. Order an Object, an unprecedented new on-demand service from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, extends a level of access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive fashion collection that was previously only granted to designers, fashion students, an…

V&A East Storehouse is a genuinely radical new museum

Storage becomes the star as the London institution’s eastern outpost brings its vast holdings into the light

‘We want people to feel like they’re trespassing’: Inside the V&A’s latest venture

In a new storage facility, visitors can personally view items from the V&A’s vast collection. Here’s what our writer ordered

London’s latest visitor/tourist attraction. …. a “world first!”

It has been a decade in the making but the wraps have now come off one off what is described as the newest visitor attraction in London. The keenly-awaited V&A East Storehouse, which officially opened on 31st May, is huge, the size of 30 basketball courts, and houses all-manner of items. Designed by world renowned architects Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, it opens as part of “East Bank”, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Par…

Inside London's ground-breaking new museum: the V&A East Storehouse

It has been some ten years in the making, but the wraps have now finally come off what is the newest visitor attraction in London. The keenly awaited V&A East Storehouse, which officially opened on 31 May, is the size of 30 basketball courts and houses all manner of items. Designed by world renowned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, it opens as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. A ground-breaking …