Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum, known locally as the V&A, is the world’s largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts, and design, housing a collection that now totals over 4.5 million objects. It was founded in 1852 as the Museum of Manufactures and later renamed in honor of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, a nod to Albertopolis—the district’s cluster of cultural institutions. Its main South Kensington site sits on about 12.5 acres (5.1 hectares) and unfolds across 145 galleries, with a collection spanning roughly 5,000 years of art from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The East Asian ceramics and metalwork are particularly strong, and the Islamic collection is among the largest in the Western world. The V&A operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and, like many national museums, offers free entry to its permanent collection. …
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