There’s only a month to go until the Victoria & Albert Museum opens its new working store and visiting attraction, V&A East Storehouse, and the countdown has officially begun.
On May 13th, you can start booking on the V&A’s new “Order an Object” service. This is a free service that anyone can book to check out and have access to any object available at the V&A East Storehouse. From Schiaparelli, Comme des Garçons and Burberry archives to mid-century furniture, ancient Egyptian shoes and Japanese tea ceremony sets.
“V&A East Storehouse has been 10 years in the making,” said V&A’s deputy director and COO Tim Reeve. “[It] is a unique piece of museum architecture, and will look and feel like a very different cultural experience, defined by the theatre and wonder of the ‘back of house’ world of museum practice, and a radical new approach for the public to access their national collections.”
The East Storehouse will feature a unique cultural offering that is set to revolutionise access to art. Over 100 mini displays that include 1,500 items from the V&A archives like works by Zaha Hadid and Hew Locke, and a huge 11-metre-wide stage cloth designed by Pablo Picasso for Ballets Russes’ 1924 production of Le Train Bleu.
The Storehouse’s staff uniforms are designed by Robyn Lynch in consultation with V&A East’s Youth Collective – they’ll go so hard. And the building itself has been designed by Diller, Scofidio and Renfro and will be located in the East Bank of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
You can check out the Order an Object service here
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