london has a new museum

A new museum is opening in London:

Dedicated to creative opportunity and its power to bring change. Two free cultural destinations – V&A East Storehouse and Museum – will open up the V&A collection for all, celebrate making in all its forms and create new possibilities for everyone.

V&A East · V&A

This is what a design magazine thinks:

We preview the V&A East Museum in London | Wallpaper

This is the actual website of the new museum:

V&A East

There's a lot going on - with a museums website looking at it all:

New look inside V&A East Storehouse as collection move begins

This week, the director talks to some teenagers about what he wants them to do - and he lets them handle some of the museum's artefacts:

Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, is on a mission to create a new kind of museum in the Olympic Park. He wants to attract a diverse audience of 16-25-year-olds, the kinds of young people least likely to be found in the great museums of South Kensington. Part of his plan is to take objects from the collection into schools and to tell their powerful stories. So we are with him in a school for students who have been excluded from other institutions as he opens the treasure chest... Gus also shares his own story of discovering art in books and then travelling to museums and galleries, as a terrified teenager, to encounter the real thing. A life-changing experience.

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, A Museum in the Making, 11/03/2024

With a piece in the Radio Times to accompany the series:

A safe space - 5 Mar 2024 - Radio Times Magazine - Readly

Last year, we had a look at how the project was going:

V&A East's plans to shake up the art world - YouTube

Here's their first exhibition next year - with a video trailer:

The Music Is Black: A British Story - Exhibition at V&A East Museum · V&A

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