Opening Day at the V&A East Storehouse

The Victoria & Albert Museum will open their East London branch on 31 May 2025. This will be a different kind of museum: the facility will put their storage on show while showing off mini displays of the objects they have. I am very intrigued by the concept. So I thought why not go on Opening Day? I don't know if they will put on anything special for that very first day, - we'll go and find out!

How the V&A East Storehouse explains it:
"Spanning four levels, and bigger than 30 basketball courts, V&A East Storehouse is a new purpose-built public space. Taking over a section of the former London 2012 Olympics Media Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park the warehouse-type space is designed to give unprecedented access to the V&A.
As well as providing a purpose-built home for over 250,000 objects, 350,000 library books and 1,000 archives from the V&A’s collections, Storehouse is a new kind of museum experience. It gives you a chance to see behind the scenes of a working museum, explore why and how objects get collected by museums, find out how they are cared for, and uncover the stories they tell about us and our world.
The central Weston Collections Hall stretches across three levels, with over 100 mini curated displays literally ‘hacked’ into the sides and ends of storage racking for you to explore. You can zoom in on east London’s rich heritage of artistry, activism and resistance, explore the V&A’s newest acquisitions by transgender and non-binary artists and get an insight into cutting-edge scientific research from conserving fragile plastics to protecting cultural heritage.
Because the V&A’s collections span 5000 years of human creativity, the team at Storehouse cares for everything from the pins used to secure a 17th century ruff to a two-storey section of a maisonette flat from the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, demolished in 2017."
Read more: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/about-va-east-storehouse

The attendee fee will be £3 to go towards site costs so we can continue to run this group. Thank you.

More details about where to meet nearer the time (I may revisit the start time of the meetup if warranted). Please keep checking back - I will keep a close eye on any news and update this page if I come across interesting details.

We'll go for drinks afterwards to chat and compare notes.