Victoria and Albert Museum complete their ambitious east London storehouse

This article was first published by The Art Newspaper.

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) new open-access storage building in east London has just been completed, providing a home for over 250,000 objects. In a few days the process of transferring the collection will begin in what a museum spokesperson describes as “the UK’s biggest house move”.

The V&A East Storehouse is due to open to visitors in spring 2025, at the same time as the nearby V&A East Museum. Together the twin projects on the former 2012 Olympic site will represent the largest UK museum development scheme for decades. Total costs will exceed those of the British Museum’s Great Court £100m project in 2000.

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