The victoria and albert museum often abbreviated as the v a in london is the world s largest museum of applied and decorative arts and design as well as sculpture housing a permanent collection of over 2 27 million objects.
Courtyard cafe victoria and albert museum. V a victoria and albert museum. Victoria and albert museum cromwell road london sw7 2rl 44 0 20 7942 2000 transport walk cycle drive parking around the v a. It was founded in 1852 and named after queen victoria and prince albert. The world s oldest museum restaurant with its beautifully designed period rooms the garden cafe or our new.
Sacklers courtyard cafe see 31 632 traveler reviews 14 509 candid photos and great deals for london uk at tripadvisor. The v a s 55m new courtyard. Hugely controversial it proposed the insertion of a pile of tumbling and intersecting cubes in to the space now occupied by the new sackler courtyard. First built in the 1860 s long before london s other museums invested in catering the south kensington museum as it was then known was a bit more of a trek out of the city proper than it is today.
Victorian afternoon tea. The new sackler courtyard at the v a london. Enjoy a wide selection of freshly prepared food and drink in a choice of three exceptional spaces. If you d prefer tea and cake rather than an afternoon tea set menu make a beeline for the café and find a table in the equally impressive gamble room.
If it s a sunny day the museum s courtyard is a relaxing spot for a chilled glass of wine. This was at a time when the victoria albert museum started to realise that the most pressing need was for fewer. Sacklers courtyard cafe see 31 477 traveller reviews 14 509 candid photos and great deals for london uk at tripadvisor. The v a s main cafe is actually the world s first museum cafe.
Enjoy a wide selection of food and drink in a choice of three exceptional spaces. An elegant white cafe with excellent catering sits to one side its only fault being that it is surely too small. The v a is located in the brompton district of the royal borough of kensington and chelsea in. Home arts culture art the new sackler courtyard at the v a london do you remember spiral the 100m daniel libeskind proposal for the victoria albert museum.
Like a marbella beach bar airlifted to south ken amanda levete s dazzling new porcelain piazza brilliantly reunites the museum with the kensington streets. The world s oldest museum restaurant with its beautifully designed period rooms the garden cafe or our new courtyard cafe in the exhibition road quarter.