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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Handmade in Britain
This important book forms part of the Handmade in Britain partnership between the V&A and the BBC. Published as the culmination of a year-long sea…
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Thu 20 June 2013 14:00
V&A Curator Joanna Norman discusses the ongoing V&A/BBC4 television series Handmade in Britain.
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