Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum
General information
Name	Victoria and Albert Museum
Alternative name(s)	V&A
Location	London, Uk
Director	Dr. Tristram Hunt
Founded	1852
Founder	Sir Henry Cole
Website	https://www.vam.ac.uk/
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Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), is the world’s leading museum of decorative arts and design art, founded in 1852, in London, Uk. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of carpets, architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

History

This history of the V&A is a story like no other. From its early beginnings as a Museum of Manufactures in 1852, to the foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1899, to today's state-of-the-art galleries, the Museum has constantly evolved in its collecting and public interpretation of art and design. Its collections span 5,000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium, housed in one of the finest groups of Victorian and modern buildings in Britain. ^[1]