The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London England UK is one of the tourist attractions in the United Kingdom. The museum was set up in 1852 to display decorative art, applied art and design and has a wide collection of the decorative arts. The jewel in the crown of London's famous South Kensington shopping and cultural area, the V & A boasts the greatest and most diverse collection of decorative art and design in the world, from 3000 BC to the present. Today, the beautiful Victorian and Edwardian buildings house 145 galleries containing some of the world's greatest collections of sculpture, furniture, fashion and textiles, paintings, silver, glass, ceramics, books, prints and photographs.

Victoria and Albert museum houses the National Art Library and also manages the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, the Wellington Museum at Apsley House and the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.

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Other Attractions of England

Barbican Art Gallery	British Museum	British Parliament & Big Ben
Buckingham Palace	Cabinet War Rooms	Kensington Palace
London Eye	Queen's Gallery	St. James Palace
Tower Bridge