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Article: Report from Europe.(planning and reopening of British Galleries within Victoria and Albert Museum)(Brief Article)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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This month a museum within a museum opens in London. The Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries, five years in the planning, will welcome their first visitors on November 22. The galleries display all aspects of British design from 1500, when Henry VII was king, to 1900, when Queen Victoria reigned. From opening day onwards there will no longer be an admission charge to the entire Victoria and Albert Museum.
The last major overhaul of the British collection was undertaken after World War II under the directorship of Leigh Ashton. The works were then installed in what were called the English Primary Galleries, and the method of display was radical because, ...