London's most exciting new museum has landed, with big plans
The world's largest museum of applied and decorative arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, is the custodian of nearly 3 million pieces spanning 5000 years of history. Only about 2 per cent of that is on display at any one time in the five-hectare, 145-gallery institution, but that's still 60,000 articles.
As of May 31, however, V&A East Storehouse opened in London's Stratford. The cavernous four-storey space in the new cultural quarter at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (the complex originally built for the 2012 London Olympics) is large enough for the display of large-scale pieces and pop-up surprise curations and will offer visitors changing displays and extraordinary experiences. It will also give museum-goers a kind of backstage view, as staff perform conservation work, process new acquisitions and package pieces that are to go out on loan.
A highlight of the Storehouse's innovative approach is the Order an Object service, whereby anyone can book in advance to see any object they like from the collection, seven days a week.
In September, however, the focus will be on all things Bowie when V&A East Storehouse's the David Bowie Centre opens.
Free to enter, the centre is the new home for the David Bowie archive, bought from the Bowie estate and featuring more than 90,000 items that trace the British superstar musician, artist and cultural icon's history and creative processes.
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Bowie died in 2016 at the age of 69 after a four-decade career during which he regularly reinvented his persona, musical styles and artistic modes. His influence continues to resonate across creative fields and culture and the archive chronicles it intricately.
Split into three different zones, the David Bowie Centre will have a mix of displays and audio-visual installations and will include costumes, handwritten lyrics and notes, and stage models.
Since it opened in London in 2013, more than 2 million people worldwide have seen the V&A's David Bowie Is exhibition. It became the V&A's fastest selling show and this success led to it touring to 11 cities – including Melbourne in 2015 – and closing in New York in 2018.
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