Submitted 12th October 2005
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The V&A in South Kensington is part of a family of museums consisting of The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green and The Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. All V&A Museums are free entry.
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Elkington & Co., copy of a lion from Rosenborg Castle, electrotype, about 1885. Museum no. REPRO.1885-193. On display in the Whiteley Silver Galleries, Room 69
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DeutschlandscapeThis exhibition explores the unregulated sprawl of European towns and the architectural talent that has emerged in Germany in response to this uninspiring landscape.
Diane Arbus RevelationsThe V&A has been showing architecture since its foundation and its collection ranges from drawings and photographs to whole rooms.
British GalleriesInspirational, beautiful and unmatched in scope, the Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries 1500- 1900 display the most comprehensive collection of British design and art on view anywhere in the world.
CeramicsThe Ceramics collection is one of the corner stones of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The collection ranges from ancient Egyptian artefacts to contemporary studio pottery and industrially designed ceramics
Furniture & FurnishingsAt the V&A Museum there are more than 14,000 pieces from Britain, Europe and America, from the Middle Ages to date. Mostly of furniture and related objects: architectural and decorative woodwork,musical instruments,leatherwork,treen and clocks.
Paintings & DrawingsPaintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection include superlative holdings of British watercolours, pastels and portrait miniatures as well as some 2500 British and European oil paintings.