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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Design and the Decorative Arts: Victorian Britain 1837-1901
Tells the story of design and the decorative arts in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Buy nowEvent - Recording Britain: Constable and his Contemporaries
Thu 28 June 2012 13:00
GALLERY TALK: Constable painted his 'own places best'. Discover what the artist thought about these places and how accurately he recorded these areas in comparison to how some of his contemporaries painted Britain.
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