Known to Londoners as the GOES, is the most important art and design museum in the world. It occupies a Victorian and Edwardian building with an area of Sqm 45.000 which, miraculously, came out practically without a scratch from the Second World War.
Located in the area called "Albertopolis", neighbor of Natural History Museum and Science Museum. The area concentrates a cultural, scientific and educational wealth of incalculable value.
The museum's holdings have a permanent collection of more than 4,5 million objects and the exhibition is organized in 145 galleries. There we can see furniture, jewelry, clothing, sculptures, weapons, musical instruments, sculptures, glassware, ceramics and a great variety of pieces from the last 5 thousand years of history and from all continents.
The V&A houses the National Library of Art that has in its funds the Codex Forster, consisting of notes from Leonardo da Vinci.
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You can not stop seeing the seven cards that subsist from The Acts of the Apostles, by Rafael Sanzio, created to make the tapestries for the Sistine Chapel.
It is located near the station South Kensington of the subway. It is open every day from 10.00 a.m. to 17.45:22 p.m., and on Fridays until XNUMX p.m. Admission is free, you only pay for some special exhibitions.
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