Victoria and Albert Museum

The world’s greatest museum of art and design

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Reviving the V&A’s Cast Courts

Reviving the V&A’s Cast Courts

The V&A’s superlative Cast Courts are undergoing a timely programme of renovation, the first time in three decades. In this blog, the project team take you behind the scenes, keeping you updated on their progress and the discoveries and challenges in breathing new life into one of the V&A’s best-loved set of galleries.

Strange encounter: a dragon’s egg nestled in the Museum’s attic

By Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski In all museums, no matter how big or small, there’s always a time when you make a ‘discovery’ as you stumble upon a piece tucked away in a corner by long-gone curators. Store auditings – a slow, painstaking process, but not without surprises – are propitious times for such encounters to happen. As part of the renovation of the...
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New beginnings

By Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski First opened in 1873 at the heart of the building, the V&A’s Cast Courts are two gigantic day-lit galleries, separated by a corridor and filled with copies of some of Europe’s most famous sculptures and monuments. Housed in a dramatic space, these objects have come to speak to each other in unrivalled ways, while their illustrious originals...
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