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Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

Victoria and Albert Museum ( London) founded as a Museum of Manufactures to inspire students of design the V&A. as it is popularly known, has 11 km (7 miles) of galleries on four floors. Victoria and Albert Museum was renamed by Queen Victoria in 1899, in memory of her late husband, and contains one of the world's richest collections of fine and applied arts.

Since 1909 the museum has been housed in a building designed by Sir Aston Webb. The galleries are currently undergoing a major rehanging, which has started with the creation of the luxurious British Galleries on levels 2 and 4. Here design and decorative arts from 1500 to 1900 are displayed to great effect.

Donatello's marble relief of The Ascension is included in the sculpture collection along with sculptures from India and the Middle and Far East. Craftsmanship in porcelain, glass, and pottery is displayed across 21 galleries, with rare pieces by Picasso and Bernard Leach. intricate "Near Eastern tiles, and a wide selection of Chinese pieces.

The most celebrated item in the vast array of furniture is the Great Bed oj Ware, made around 1590. The Victorian designers who decorated the plush Morris, Gamble, and Poynter Rooms recreated historic styles with newer industrial materials. The fully furnished interiors offer a vivid picture of social life through their displays of furniture and other domestic objects.

Among exhibits in the 20th Century Gallery is Daniel Weil's painting Radio in a Bag (19R3). The V&A has a wide collection of musical instruments and metalwork, including a 16th¬century salt cellar.

The Whiteley Silver galleries also explore the history and techniques 18th-century wooden doU, of silvermaking. Victoria and Albert Museum The Eltenherg Reliquary, made in Cologne in the late 12th century, takes prid. e of place in the Medieval Treasury situated on level 1.

Among the textiles, weapons, jewelry, metalwork, glass, and paintings of the Nehru Gallery of Indian Art is the automated Tippoo's Tiger (c.1790), which mauls a European soldier when activated. Eight galleries, devoted to the arts of the Far East, display rare jade and ceramics, a giant Buddha's head from AD 700-900, and a Ming canopied beel. Among exhibits in the 1'. T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art is a watercolor on silk from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The Toshiba Gallery focuses on Japanese art, including Samurai armor and wood¬block prints. The world renowned Dress Collection is displayed on level 1. It is devoted to fashionable clothing from the mid-1500s to the present day. The figures here are fully dressed, complete with contemporary accessories.

Victoria and Albert Museum also houses valuable illustrated documents in the National Art Library and the national collection of photographs with images from 1856 to the present.

Museums in London

• British Museum (London)
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• Victoria and Albert Museum (London)