Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, founded in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures. Its collection spans over 5,000 years and 2.8 million objects across fashion, design, photography, theatre and more. The V&A today comprises several London sites: the flagship South Kensington museum, Young V&A, and the East Bank campus in Stratford, home to V&A East Museum, V&A East Storehouse and the David Bowie Centre.
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Now on view
4 exhibitions
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
"For me, dress designing is not a profession but an art." – Elsa Schiaparelli
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane.
The Music is Black: A British Story
125 years of Black music-making in Britain. Spanning four continents, this is a story of excellence, struggle, resilience and joy.
Opening soon
5 upcoming
Chintz
Spanning four centuries of creativity, this exhibition re-discovers the story of chintz, a South Indian fabric created by hand-drawing designs on cotton – one of the most coveted, copied and contentious fabrics in…
Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires
A major UK-first exhibition exploring 1,600 years of extraordinary art and design, offering a compelling new perspective on a city defined by artistic excellence across more than a millennium.
Punk to Pop
Celebrating the creative explosion across music and fashion from 1972 – 85.
Sculpture in Clay
Exploring the work of British artists from the mid-1980s to the present.
South Asia Now: Fashion. Art. Design.
A landmark exhibition of over 200 works across art, fashion, architecture and design exploring the extraordinary creativity, innovation and global influence emerging from South Asia today.
Locations
5 buildings- V&A David Bowie Centre2 Parkes Street, London E20 3AX, UK
- V&A East MuseumEast Bank, 107 Carpenters Rd, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London E20 2AR, UKOpen in Google Maps
- V&A East Storehouse2 Parkes Street, London E20 3AX, UKOpen in Google Maps
- Victoria and Albert MuseumCromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, UKOpen in Google Maps
- Young V&ACambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PA, UKOpen in Google Maps