Room 122b: Britain Discovery Area
Room 122b is one of three Discovery Areas within the British Galleries. Here you can try on a corset or a crinoline as well as experiment with building a crystal palace. Fashionable women wore crinolines under their dresses from about 1857 to the late 1860s. The Crystal Palace housed the Great Exhibition of 1851 and was dismantled and re-built in South London in 1854 and then destroyed by fire in 1936. There are also other interactive options in this rooms as well as the opportunity to try out a stereograph - a special camera with two lenses used to create two images which when combined gave the illusion of perspective and depth.
Room 122b is on Level 4 of the V&A South Kensington.
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Wed 22 February 2012 13:00
LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Join V&A curator Joanna Norman as she discusses some of the objects featured in the BBC Handmade in Britain programmes, looking at how and why they were made, and what they say about the social and cultural context in which we have lived in the past and continue to live today.
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