V&A East Storehouse Is a Genuinely Radical New Museum
- The V&A East Storehouse, a vast open-access working store at 2 Parkes Street, Stratford, London, officially opened on May 31, 2025.
- The storehouse opened in response to growing pressure on museums to reveal their collections amid debates about transparency and restitution.
- Designed by Diller Scofidio+Renfro, the facility houses over 250,000 objects spanning diverse eras and genres, including a 1954 Balenciaga gown and Roman frescoes.
- Kate Parsons, Director of Conservation, expressed enthusiasm about providing access to the collection, highlighting that visitors can now schedule free private viewings through the Order an Object service.
- The project aims to democratize museum collections by allowing visitors close encounters with stored items, fostering debate on sustainable collecting and expanding public engagement.
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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…
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 …
V&A East Storehouse is latest London 2012 legacy success
Another piece of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics legacy was slotted into place this morning with the ten o’clock opening to the public of V&A East Storehouse. The new space occupies an end of the larger of the two buildings next to the Lee Canal at Hackney Wick that originally formed the Games-time media centre, and now has a whole new life as Here East, a research, innovation and start-up complex. The Storehouse – clue in name – is the…
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