Victoria and Albert Museum

About half an hour’s walk from Hyde Park Corner to the southwest (first through Knightsbridge & then Brompton Road), or two steps away with the metro (South Kensington Station), we come before a triplet of London’s most important museums, starting with the magnificent Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to cover 12.5 acres and 145 galleries.

The museum’s collection features 5,000 years of art, that extends from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every existing medium of expression, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia as well as North Africa. It is a museum of such vast coverage that any effort to pinpoint just a few highlights is probably unwise.

In general, the V& A Museum is considered to be the world’s leading museum of art and design. It holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewelry, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre, and performance. More