The museum is found at the corner of Exhibition Road and Cromwell Road opposite the Natural History Museum. The following information is a small part of that found on the Art Guide site.

The V&A is the world's greatest museum of art and design. Founded in 1852, the Museum is renowned for the immense diversity of its collections, which embrace furniture, fashion, textiles, paintings, silver, glass, ceramics, jewellery, books, prints and photographs. Housed in magnificent Victorian buildings, these collections illustrate the artistic life of many different cultures, from European to South East Asian, American to Islamic, over thousands of generations. The Silver Galleries have now re-opened and feature over 1000 pieces from 1800 to the present day, beautifully displayed in a restored Victorian setting.
The following is a slight, random selection of the highlights of the collections displayed:
The Armada Jewel; Augustus III's Writing Cabinet; The Barbor Jewel; A Book of Hours; Sandro Botticelli - Portrait of Simeralda Bandinelli; Butler Bowden - Cope; The Canning Jewel; Cast Courts; Paul Cezanne - Study of Trees; The Cheapside Hoard; Chinese furniture, glass, sculpture and textiles; John Constable - Salisbury Cathedral; Study of Cirrus Clouds; and Watermill at Gillingham; A costume collection; J. Crace - Furniture, 19thC Danny Jewel; Edgar Degas - The Ballet Scene from the Opera, Robert le Diable; Abraham de English clock of 1588; Andre Derain - Dancers; Devonshire Hunting Tapestries; Christian Dior - Bar suit; European ceramics, glass; Finger rings; Thomas Gainsborough - Moonlit landscape painted on glass and lit from show-box behind; 19thC; Great Bed of Ware; Henry VIII's Writing Desk; Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Anne of Cleves (miniature); Indian Decorative Arts; James II Wedding Suit; Japanese decorative arts and prints; 18thC; Korean Ceramics; Lace collection; Issy Miyake - Rhythm Pleats Dress; Möllendorff Dinner Service; William Morris - Illuminated poems; Textiles; The National Collection of Glass; Norfolk House Music Room; Pablo Picasso - An Artist at his Easel; Alexander W.N. Pugin - 'Marriage' jewellery; Louis Francois Roubillac - George Frederick Handel; and Samson Slaying a Philistine; Shah Jahan's Wine Cup; Spanish Jewellery from the Shrine of the Virgin of the Pillar; The Ardabil Carpet; The Badminton Bed; The Howard Grace Cup; The Throne of Maharajah Ranjit Singh; The Veroli Casket; Tippoo's Tiger; Christian van Vianen - Silver Dish of 1635; William Vile - Furniture.

O/S Co-ords:2696.7915
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