What is the Victoria and Albert Museum?
Q: What is the Victoria and Albert Museum?
A: The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied art, featuring decorative arts and design.
Q: When was it founded?
A: The V&A was founded in 1852.
Q: How many objects does it have in its permanent collection?
A: The V&A has a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects.
Q: How big is the museum?
A: The museum covers 12.5 acres (5 hectares) and 145 galleries.
Q: What type of art does it feature?
A: Its collection spans 5000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.
Q: Who sponsors the museum?
A: The museum is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Q: What are some highlights of its collections? A: The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery furniture medieval objects sculpture prints and printmaking drawings and photographs are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world. It also possesses one of the largest collections outside Italy for Italian Renaissance items as well as one of three major Islamic collections with Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art New York being two others.
