The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design. As the home of the national collection of architecture, the V&A holds monumental plaster casts, large-scale architectural fragments and entire historic rooms, as well as models, drawings and sketchbooks by major British and international architects from the 15th century to the present day.
Member:
- Institutional Member
- Europe, United Kingdom
Institutional Member
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Design drawing on vellum for Ulm cathedral by Moritz Ensinger, c. 1470. ©Victoria and Albert Museum
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Ceiling designed by Robert Adam, c. 1771. ©Victoria and
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Model for the proposed rebuilding of Whitehall by Andrew Clarke, 1869. ©Victoria and Albert Museum
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Robin Hood Gardens exterior showing section acquired by the V&A. ©Victoria and Albert Museum
Collection
Focus: local, national, international. Consists of: architectural drawings, both individual drawings and complete archives; documents/correspondence; models; building fragments; vintage photographs; slides; ephemera. Strengths: 35,000 drawings, especially British, chiefly 1700-1900; 280,000 vintage photographs (including the Royal Photographic Society collection); 4,000 architectural fragments in wood, stone and plaster; 8 complete historic rooms; 4,000 plaster casts (including the whole of Trajan’s column). Collection accessible online (digitisation is ongoing) via Search the Collections https://collections.vam.ac.uk Collections can be reproduced depending on copyright status – see details on Search the Collections https://collections.vam.ac.uk Institution has a conservation studio.Library Holdings
Holdings: The National Art Library – 13,000 architectural books from 16th century to the present day; Archive of Art & Design holds complete design and architectural archives (e.g. Eileen Gray).Other Members:
