Text: Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, is the world’s largest museum
of decorative arts and design, housing
a permanent collection of over 4.5
million objects..
Performative arts
Artist (someone who draws, paints or
makes sculptures)
Someone who create things with great
Skill
It was founded in 1852 and named after
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The
Victoria & Albert Museum is split into four
Collections departments, Asia; Furniture,
Textiles and Fashion; Sculpture,
Metalwok, Ceramics & Glass and Word &
Image
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The V&A’s collection of Japanese art and
design is one of the largest in Britain. It
includes ceramics, lacquer, arms and
armour, woodwork, metalwork, textiles and
dress, prints, paintings and sculpture. An
active programme of acquiring modern
and contemporary studio crafts has
resulted in the V&A having one of the most
prestigious holdings of this material
outside Japan.
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The V&A’s collection of ukiyo-e is one of
the largest and finest in the world, with
over 25,000 prints, paintings, drawings
and books. Ukiyo-e means ‘Pictures of the
Floating World’. Images of everyday
Japan, mass-produced for popular
consumption in the Edo period
(1615-1868), they represent one of the
highpoints of Japanese cultural
achievement. Popular themes include
