Victoria & Albert Museum London
The London Victoria & Albert Museum is well-known all around the planet by its shortened recognition - V&A. The V&A in London city is an absolute treasure of design and attractive fine art items. It is home to an everlasting compilation of over 4.5 million fine art items, in its extravagant area. Its derivation goes back to the year 1852 as the South Kensington Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is extended above twelve and half acres of land, and is home to 148 art galleries in its bosom. It has a wonderful compilation of art and design objects straddling from 5000 years old works of art, passing from olden to recent times. Its superb set of art and design things are from each medium beneath the sun. This assorted art depository swanks of unusual assortments from varied traditions like North Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
The Victoria & Albert Museum is located in London's "Albertopolis" - vicinity which is enormously well-off in terms of civilization, art and education. V & A in London has for its neighbours, world famous organizations like Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. Its compilation of monuments, furnishings, ceramic objects, snaps, glasswork, sketches, fabrics, prints and printmaking, outfits, jewellery, medieval fine art items, silver and ironwork manufactured articles are the most excellent and biggest in the entire planet. The London V & A museum have an asset of world's prime compilation of Italian renaissance fine art objects, and post-classical sculpture art. Its Asian sculpture compilation section is a real treasure home of art works from Islam, China, Korea, South Asia and Japan.
Entry to Victoria and Albert Museum London has been made free of charge from the year 2001, which was too a milestone year of change for V&A, a year when it went on an awesome attempt to refurbish its open sections and initiated a lot of novel aspects.
Visiting the Victoria & Albert Museum in London:
Address: Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cost: Free
Time: 10.00 to 17.45 daily, 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays
Nearest Underground Stations:
South Kensington Tube (5 minutes)
Gloucester Road Tube (11 minutes)
Nearest Hotels: Quality Crown hotel Kensington
For more information on the London Victoria & Albert Museum, please visit : www.vam.ac.uk
What's on at Victoria & Albert Museum London:
Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle in London
2nd May - 6th Sep '09
Step into the original, entertaining world of Quentin Blake & Roald Dahl with Snozzcumbers & Frobscottle at London's V & A Museum of Childhood.
The Victoria & Albert Museum is located in London's "Albertopolis" - vicinity which is enormously well-off in terms of civilization, art and education. V & A in London has for its neighbours, world famous organizations like Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. Its compilation of monuments, furnishings, ceramic objects, snaps, glasswork, sketches, fabrics, prints and printmaking, outfits, jewellery, medieval fine art items, silver and ironwork manufactured articles are the most excellent and biggest in the entire planet. The London V & A museum have an asset of world's prime compilation of Italian renaissance fine art objects, and post-classical sculpture art. Its Asian sculpture compilation section is a real treasure home of art works from Islam, China, Korea, South Asia and Japan.
Entry to Victoria and Albert Museum London has been made free of charge from the year 2001, which was too a milestone year of change for V&A, a year when it went on an awesome attempt to refurbish its open sections and initiated a lot of novel aspects.
Visiting the Victoria & Albert Museum in London:
Address: Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cost: Free
Time: 10.00 to 17.45 daily, 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays
Nearest Underground Stations:
South Kensington Tube (5 minutes)
Gloucester Road Tube (11 minutes)
Nearest Hotels: Quality Crown hotel Kensington
For more information on the London Victoria & Albert Museum, please visit : www.vam.ac.uk
What's on at Victoria & Albert Museum London:
Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle in London
2nd May - 6th Sep '09
Step into the original, entertaining world of Quentin Blake & Roald Dahl with Snozzcumbers & Frobscottle at London's V & A Museum of Childhood.
Henley Royal Regatta 2009
