The Victoria and Albert Museum has completed its largest project for over half a century: the transformation of the new British Galleries 1500-1900.
Located on two floors of the Museum, the new galleries tell the story of British design and offer displays of the very best of historic British furniture, textiles, dress, ceramics, glass, jewellery, silver, prints, paintings and sculpture. They have been created by a team including exhibition designers CassonMann and interior decoration specialist David Mlinaric.
The galleries contain the world’s most comprehensive collection of British design from the reign of Henry VIII to that of Queen Victoria. Every major name in the history of British design is represented, including Grinling Gibbons, Robert Adam, William Morris and Charles Rennie Mackintosh as well as workshops and manufacturers such as the Mortlake tapestry works, Spitalfields silks, Wedgwood, Doulton and Liberty’s. National treasures such as Henry VIII’s writing desk, James II’s wedding suit and the famous Great Bed of Ware are on view. The new galleries offer a chronological survey of the history of British design and cover themes such as who led taste and the latest innovations of each period.
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