Over the past five years, V&A Museum’s new east London storehouse has been slowly filling up with over 600,000 objects from the museum’s archive ahead of its opening next year.
The collection used to be housed in the ornate Blythe House in West Kensington, but in 2015, the Government announced it would provide £150 million for new storage and then sell off Blythe House.
The replacement warehouse in Olympic Park will also be routinely open to the public to visit.
The move, the V&A’s largest since World War II, has seen over 250,000 objects, 350,000 library books and 1,000 archives audited, condition checked, carefully packed, documented, electronically tracked, and safely transported to their new home in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
V&A East Storehouse opens at Here East next year, as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Updated 13:15 – correcting image as had used one of V&A East museum, not store.
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