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The V&A Shop
V&A Shop
The V&A Shop is a spectacular space that offers over 6,000 products of every colour, size and price, and responds to inspiration from across the V&A’s collections.
It stocks a broad range of inspiring designs to suit all ages and pockets, as well as exclusive commissions, one-off vintage pieces and iconic products represented in the V&A’s own collections. Jewellery, furniture, books, textiles, toys, ceramics, fashion, design, glass and accessories are selected and commissioned from all over the world.
The shop features leading designers and makers including: Erdem, Roja Dove, Tata Naka, Fred Butler, Alexis Bittar, Stephen Jones, Angie Lewin, Bijoux Heart, Sarah Cavender, Mounir, St Erasmus, Piet Stockmans, Dennis China Works, Aardvark, Charlotte Mann, James Brown, Rob Ryan and Edmund de Waal.
Every purchase supports the Victoria and Albert Museum, the world's greatest museum of art and design.
Opening times
Open daily between 10:00 and 17:30
Late night every Friday until 21:45
Location
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2687
The V&A Bookshop
V&A Bookshop
The dedicated V&A Bookshop is one of the country’s finest destinations for illustrated books.
The Bookshop specializes in sourcing the most authoritative selection of fashion and textiles books, as well as a huge range of specialist and commercial writing, underpinned, of course, by the V&A’s own publishing. Book lovers will find an exciting and constantly changing choice of new and established books on subjects as diverse as design, samurai swords, iPhone photography, Renaissance wedding chests and the design of London Underground stations.
Opening times
Open daily between 10:00 and 17:30
Late night every Friday until 21:45
Location
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
+44 (0)20 7942 2687
The V&A Reading Rooms on Exhibition Road
The V&A Reading Rooms
V&A Reading Rooms
The V&A Reading Rooms, at No 8 Exhibition Road (between South Kensington tube station and the Museum) combines two of life’s great pleasures: good books and fine wine.
Here, you can read or browse over 1000 books, and enjoy a coffee or a glass of wine. Bar snacks including olives, cheese and oatcakes, lemon almonds and grissini are also available. Open seven days a week, the V&A Reading Rooms are the ideal place to meet before or after an exhibition, or simply to pass a pleasant half hour when passing through.
In our eclectic, curated collection we place novellas alongside biographies and graphic novels next to guides to the beautiful and bizarre, taking in vintage bindings and the latest in contemporary book design.
Every purchase supports the Victoria and Albert Museum, the world's greatest museum of art and design.
Find out more at the V&A Reading Rooms website.
Opening times
Open daily between 10:00 and 20:00
Location
No. 8 Exhibition Road
London SW7 2HF
+ 44 (0)20 7225 0594
V&A Museum of Childhood Shop
The V&A Museum of Childhood celebrates childhood, past and present. Our Bethnal Green shop has a distinctive, refreshingly different selection of ideas for children, big and little, then and now.
Opening times:
Open daily between 10.00 and 17.45
Late night on the first Thursday of the month until 21.00
Location
V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9PA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 8983 5229 or (0)20 8983 5231
A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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