V & A
Entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum
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 Location within Central London
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| Established | 1852 |
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| Location |
Cromwell Road London, SW7 United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°29′48″N 0°10′19″W / 51.496667°N 0.171944°W |
| Collection size | 2,278,183 items in 145 galleries |
| Visitors |
3,432,325 (2015)
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| Director | Tristram Hunt |
| Public transit access |
 South Kensington
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| Website | vam.ac.uk |
3,432,325 (2015)
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), London, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The V&A is located in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in an area that has become known as "Albertopolis" because of its association with Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial and the major cultural institutions with which he was associated. These include the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the Royal Albert Hall. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Like other national British museums, entrance to the museum has been free since 2001.
The V&A covers 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photographs are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world.
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