FuturePlan updates

Find out the latest news from the wide range of FuturePlan projects being carried out around the V&A by architects, designers and leading Museum experts. FuturePlan is transforming the V&A by revitalising visitor facilities and redisplaying the collections. Using the best architects and designers, we are bringing the V&A into the 21st century and restoring modern design and innovation to the heart of the museum.

Gus Casely-Hayford is inaugural director of V&A East

Design and society

Change is Coming

FuturePlan updates

Aston Webb Screen Reveal

This Summer the V&A will reveal its new spaces on Exhibition Road. We will regularly be sharing news leading up to the opening in July. If you’ve visited the museum...

FuturePlan updates

Installation of the ‘Oculus’ – a window into the new Exhibition Road Gallery

Over the past six months, the team has enjoyed watching the construction of the oculus develop and take shape on site. Now that work has completed on the concrete...

FuturePlan updates

A Busy Spring on Exhibition Road

Over two years ago in rainy January, the main contract for Exhibition Road was signed, officially starting the project build after years of planning and design. The milestone was...

FuturePlan updates

The Trusses are in!

The Exhibition Road Project has reached an exciting moment as concrete works are finishing on site and the massive steel trusses which form the roof over the new exhibitions...

FuturePlan updates

End of the Big Dig!

We are pleased to announce that bulk excavation on the Exhibition Road Building site is now finished, after nearly 4 months of non-stop digging! While there are some areas still...

FuturePlan updates

Engineering Exhibition Road

Turning the Exhibition Road Building Project designs into reality is an enormous and constant challenge for the design team – in particular the engineers and contractors....

FuturePlan updates

A Day in the Life on the Exhibition Road Project: Luke Cripps

Toureen Group are a construction company specialising in demolition and excavation, and we have been solving complex construction problems for over twenty years. We were...

FuturePlan updates

From quiet garden to world class gallery: a brief history of the Exhibition Road site

The year is 1899 – The rise of Albertopolis is in full, dramatic swing, and South Kensington is quickly becoming a stronghold for the decorative arts, science and culture in...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

V&A Concrete Christmas Bowling Tournament

Over the past couple of months I have been devising a bowling game to be played on the Exhibition Road building site. This game took place last Friday on December 19th, and was...

FuturePlan updates

What’s going on in Exhibition Road?

Have you walked down Exhibition Road recently and wondered exactly what is going on at the V&A? Why is there a forest of machines towering above the old buildings? The answer...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Clay Hand Tracing

I like the idea of buildings as handcrafted objects, hands are the most sophisticated and versatile of all the tools involved in the construction process, they perform the small...

Clothworkers' Centre

Clothworkers’ Christmas Countdown, part 4

Although it’s only two days now until it’s time to celebrate the birth of the Saviour by wrapping pork with pork, I have found that my Christmas spirit is not what it was...

Clothworkers' Centre

Clothworkers’ Christmas Countdown, part 3

Season’s greetings! I know you’re probably all busy sitting on the Christmas cake or whatever it is you have to do, though if I may steal a few of your rested festive moments,...

Clothworkers' Centre

Clothworkers’ Christmas Countdown, part 2

If there’s one thing that working at the V&A has taught me, it’s that established systems can prove to be robust and to have great constancy. Having conceded that fact, my...

Clothworkers' Centre

Clothworkers’ Christmas Countdown, part 1

Friends have been proclaiming for weeks an infatuation with sherry; a love so regular one could rely on ones calendar to inform on its ascendancy and decline. We feel that nagging...

Clothworkers' Centre

Clothworkers’: Who Unframed Historic Fabric?

If you’re reading this, then you can probably guess how difficult it must be to interpret, unlock and care for the collections of the V&A. The amazing eclecticism and range...

Clothworkers' Centre

Clothworkers’: First Week

After half a decade in the making, this week the Department of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion welcomed its first public appointments at the Clothworkers’ Centre. A...

FuturePlan updates

Clothworkers’: Treatments for Spinal Injuries

Some of our more contemplative readers might be interested to learn that the Clothworkers’ Centre will also be home to more than eight-hundred pattern books and swatches. The...