This inside-out V&A could be the museum of the future

The V&A Storehouse is completely free to enter. - Hufton+Crow

What they’re displaying – and simultaneously storing – is over 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 archives from the V&A’s collections. - Hufton+Crow

Up some stairs, through two sets of double doors (functioning as an air lock) and right into the four-level building’s core, from which shelves radiate out for the best possible view of their displays. - Hufton+Crow

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Location

2 Parkes St, London E20 3AG, UK

Design

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Client

V&A

Floor Area

16,000-sq-m

How should museums respond to contemporary issues like the climate crisis, inclusivity and altered ways of digesting content? V&A East Storehouse in London provides a lesson.

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