オーダー・アン・オブジェクト

V&Aの革新的な新サービス「Order an Object」を通じて、V&Aイースト・ストアハウスに所蔵されているあらゆる収蔵品に、誰でも、週7日無料でアクセスするための予約ができるようになりました。ミッドセンチュリーの家具から、古代エジプトの靴やローマ時代のフレスコ画、14世紀初頭のシモーネ・マルティーニの絵画、リー・バウリーの衣装、アルシア・マクニッシュの布地、ヴィンテージのバンドTシャツや公演ポスター、そしてバレンシアガ、スキャパレリ、コム・デ・ギャルソン、三宅一生、ヴィヴィアン・ウエストウッドによるアヴァンギャルドなファッションとオートクチュールに至るまで、誰もが探求できる何かがあります。

5月13日にサービスが開始されて以来、14世紀や現代の陶磁器、17世紀イランのカーペット、1930年代のウェディングドレス、ジュリア・マーガレット・キャメロンの写真など、1,000点を超える収蔵品を見るために250件以上の予約が行われています。これまでのところ、最も多く注文された収蔵品は、クリストバル・バレンシアガによる1954年のピンクのシルクタフタ製イブニングドレスです。

V&Aイースト・ストアハウスの建築を設計した事務所ディラー・スコフィディオ＋レンフロの創設パートナー、エリザベス・ディラー（Elizabeth Diller）は、次のように述べました。「媒体、規模、歴史的時代にわたる様々な収集物の集合体としてのV&Aのコレクションの多様性を称えるために、来訪者は、広大な驚異の部屋に没入するような感覚を体験することになります。コレクションズ・ホールでは、来訪者が周囲に展示されたあらかじめキュレーションされた作品を、従来のキュレーションの論理や標準的な収蔵分類に従うのではなく、自分自身の好奇心に導かれて探求することができます。この新しい形の施設を創り上げるにあたって、V&Aのキュレーターや保存担当者と共に仕事をするのは大きな喜びでした。それは倉庫でも博物館でもなく、職員と来訪者が共有するハイブリッドで、アクセスと交流の可能性が広がる所です」

博物館担当大臣のクリス・ブライアント卿（Sir Chris Bryant）は次のように述べました。「V&Aがこのような形で革新を進めているのを見るのは素晴らしいことです。V&Aイースト・ストアハウスによって、誰もがこれまでにない方法で、芸術・デザイン・パフォーマンスの歴史という膨大な宝の山に深く入り込むことが可能になります」

ロンドン市長のサディク・カーン（Sadiq Khan）は、次のように述べました。「V&Aイースト・ストアハウスは、ロンドンの新しい教育・文化地区であるイースト・バンクにある、革新的でまったく新しい博物館体験であり、世界有数の芸術・デザイン・パフォーマンスのコレクションへのアクセスのあり方を一変させることでしょう。私はこの画期的なプロジェクトを支援できることを誇りに思います。このプロジェクトにより、ロンドン市民や来訪者は史上初めて舞台裏に入り、ローマ時代の遺物や現代音楽のアーカイブ、さらには世界最大のピカソ作品に至るまで、驚くべき収蔵品の数々を無料で探訪できるようになります。これはイースト・バンクで次に開館する建物であり、ここ数十年で最も野心的な文化開発を実現しようとする私たちの取り組みにおいて、極めて重要な節目となるものです。そして、ロンドンが世界の創造の首都であり続けることを確実にする助けとなります」

ウェストン・コレクションズ・ホール

中央のウェストン・コレクションズ・ホールに足を踏み入れた瞬間から、来訪者はV&Aのコレクションの断面に囲まれながら、全階層に広がる見事な眺望に心を奪われることでしょう。古代の仏教彫刻からPJハーヴェイのギター、アンジェリカ・カウフマンの周囲の画家による絵画、ヴィヴィアン・リーが着用した衣装、フランク・ボウリング卿とヒュー・ロックによる作品、グラストンベリー・ミュージック・フェスティバルのアイテム、サフラジェットのスカーフ、ヴィンテージのサッカーシャツ、トーマス・ヘザウィックによるロンドン2012年オリンピックの聖火台模型、マーガレット・カルバートがデザインした道路標識に至るまで、来訪者は保管ラックの端や側面に設けられた100以上のミニキュレーション展示を、自分自身のルートでたどることができます。

ロビン・フッド・ガーデンズから、世界最大のピカソ作品に至るまで

6点の大型展示物がこの空間の中心となっており、その多くは数十年ぶりに公開されています。注目の展示には、1930年代のカウフマン・オフィス（アメリカ国外で唯一のフランク・ロイド・ライトによる完全な室内空間）、スペインにかつて存在したトリホス宮殿からの15世紀の精巧な彫刻と金箔装飾が施された木製天井、そしてマルガレーテ・シュッテ＝リホツキーが設計した20世紀のフルスケールのフランクフルト・キッチンが含まれています。

さらに、ロンドン東部にかつて存在した住宅団地ロビン・フッド・ガーデンズの建物の一部や、アグラ城塞の浴場からのムガル建築の驚くべき例である17世紀のアグラ・コロネード、そして世界最大のピカソ作品である、バレエ・リュス「ル・トラン・ブルー」のための記念碑的な舞台幕も展示されています。高さ10メートル、幅11メートルのピカソ署名入りのこの舞台幕は、1924年の初披露以来、ほとんど公開されていません。それは、壮大な規模を誇る新しいデイヴィッド＆モリー・ローウェル・ボースウィック・ギャラリーで公開されています。このギャラリーは、V&Aの印象的な大型織物や舞台幕のコレクションを交替で展示するためにつくられたものです。

これらの大型展示物は、ロンドン東部の若者たち、地域社会、そしてクリエイターとの一連の共同制作プロジェクトを通じて、さらに命を吹き込まれます。これにより、口述歴史、新作映像、出版物、それに応じたアート作品などを含め、空間全体にわたって多様な新しい声や視点をハイライトします。

V&Aイースト・ストアハウスは、東ロンドンにオープンするV&Aイーストの2つの新しい文化施設のうち、最初に開館する施設です。2つ目の施設であるV&Aイースト・ミュージアムは2026年春の開館が予定されており、ものづくりと創造性がもたらす変革の力を称える場所です。若者たちと共に創り上げられ、東ロンドンの遺産に根ざしたV&Aイースト・ミュージアムは、今まさに世界の文化を形作っている人々、思想、そして創造性にスポットを当てます。

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On Saturday 31 May 2025, the V&A’s new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens its doors to the public for the first time following 10 years of planning and extensive audience consultation, with input from V&A East’s Youth Collective. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, it opens as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park supported by the Mayor of London.

A ground-breaking new museum experience spanning four levels, and at 16,000m² – bigger than 30+ basketball courts – V&A East Storehouse takes over a large section of the former London 2012 Olympics Media and Broadcast Centre (now Here East). It is a new purpose-built home for over 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 archives.

A world-first in size, scale and ambition, and new source of inspiration for all, V&A East Storehouse immerses visitors in over half a million works spanning every creative discipline from fashion to theatre, streetwear to sculpture, design icons to pop pioneers. A busy and dynamic working museum store with an extensive self-guided experience, visitors can now get up-close to their national collections on a scale and in ways not possible before.

Tim Reeve, Deputy Director and COO, V&A, who developed the concept for V&A East Storehouse, said: “V&A East Storehouse is a completely new cultural experience and backstage pass to the V&A, transforming how people can access their national collections on a scale unimaginable until now. From conservation and how we care for our collections and cultural heritage around the world, to the artistry of our Museum Technicians and new research – there’s so much to discover. I hope our visitors enjoy finding their creative inspiration and immersing themselves in the full theatre and wonder of the V&A as a dynamic working museum.”

Order an Object

Through the V&A’s radical new Order an Object service, anyone can now book to access any object at V&A East Storehouse, for free, seven-days-a-week. From Mid-Century furniture to ancient Egyptian shoes and Roman frescoes, an early 14th century Simone Martini painting, Leigh Bowery costumes, Althea McNish fabrics, vintage band t-shirts and performance posters, and avant-garde fashion and couture from Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, Comme des Garçons, Issey Miyake and Vivienne Westwood, there’s something for everyone to explore.

Since going live on 13 May, over 250 appointments have been booked to see over 1,000 objects from 14th century and contemporary ceramics to a 17th century carpet from Iran, 1930s wedding dresses and Julia Margaret Cameron photographs. So far, the most popular item ordered is a 1954 pink silk taffeta evening dress by Cristobal Balenciaga.

Elizabeth Diller, Founding Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the firm that designed the architecture for V&A East Storehouse, said: “To celebrate the heterogeneity of the V&A’s collection of collections—spanning a broad variety of mediums, scales, and historical periods—visitors will experience a sense of being immersed in a vast Cabinet of Curiosities. The Collections Hall invites visitors to explore pre-curated works surrounding them, not according to conventional curatorial logics or standard storage taxonomies, but guided instead by their own curiosities. It has been a joy to work with the V&A’s curators and conservators in creating this new kind of institution: neither warehouse nor museum, but rather a hybrid shared by staff and the public with expanded opportunities for access and exchange.”

Museums Minister, Sir Chris Bryant said: “It’s great to see the V&A innovating in this way – V&A East Storehouse makes it possible for everyone to delve into a massive treasure trove of art, design and performance history in ways never seen before.”

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “V&A East Storehouse is a brand-new, groundbreaking museum experience in East Bank, London’s new educational and cultural district, that will revolutionise access to the world’s leading collection of art, design and performance. I’m proud to be supporting this landmark project, which will allow Londoners and visitors to go behind the scenes for the first time ever and explore some incredible treasures, from Roman artefacts and modern-day music archives to the largest Picasso work in the world, all for free. It’s the next building to open at East Bank and marks a hugely significant moment in our work to create the most ambitious cultural development in decades, helping us to ensure London stays the creative capital of the world.”

The Weston Collections Hall

From the moment they emerge into the central Weston Collections Hall, visitors will be captivated by stunning vistas across all levels, surrounded by a cross-section of the V&A’s collections. Spanning ancient Buddhist sculpture to PJ Harvey’s guitar, paintings by Angelica Kauffman’s circle, costumes worn by Vivien Leigh, works by Sir Frank Bowling and Hew Locke, items from the Glastonbury Music Festival, Suffragette scarves, vintage football shirts, Thomas Heatherwick’s model for the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron and road signs designed by Margaret Calvert, visitors can take their own path through over 100 mini curated displays hacked into the ends and sides of the storage racking.

From Robin Hood Gardens to the largest Picasso work in the world

Six large-scale objects anchor the space, on display for the first time in decades. Highlights include the 1930s Kaufmann Office, the only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior outside of the US, an exquisite 15th century carved and gilded wooden ceiling from the now lost Torrijos Palace in Spain, and a full-scale 20th century Frankfurt Kitchen designed by Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky.

Also on show is a building section from Robin Hood Gardens, a former residential estate in east London, the 17th century Agra Colonnade, an extraordinary example of Mughal architecture from the bathhouse at the fort of Agra, and the largest Picasso work in the world – a monumental Ballets Russes Le Train Bleu theatre stage cloth. At 10 metres high and 11 metres wide, the Picasso-signed stage cloth has been rarely seen since its debut in 1924. It is on display in the new David and Molly Lowell Borthwick Gallery of epic proportions, built to show the V&A’s striking collection of large-scale textiles and theatre stage cloths on rotation.

These large objects are brought further to life with a series of co-production projects in collaboration with young east Londoners, communities, and creatives, highlighting multiple new voices and perspectives across the space, including oral histories, new films, publications and artworks in response.

V&A East Storehouse is the first of V&A East’s two new cultural destinations to open in east London. The second, V&A East Museum, is scheduled to open in spring 2026, and celebrates making and creativity’s power to bring change. Created with young people and rooted in east London’s heritage, V&A East Museum spotlights the people, ideas and creativity shaping global culture right now.

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Entrance and signage within the larger frontage of the Here East building in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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The entrance hall runs the length of the museum’s glazed frontage, and is designed as a flexible, hardworking space with open-plan seating, lockers and cloakroom facilities, and a Cafe operated by the local independent business E5 Bakehouse. Furniture can be reconfigured to suit different uses including public seating, or informal events and workshops.

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The architectural design of the new 16,000 square-metre V&A East Storehouse gives the public access to the V&A’s working storage facility, creating a completely new cultural experience. From the street-level lobby, visitors pass through a walkway driven through the racks of storage before emerging into the 20-metre-high Weston Collections Hall. This dramatic clearing in the centre of the densely packed warehouse suggests a void extracted from a solid mass. The Collections Hall contains artefacts that appear to stretch into infinitely deep space in every direction, even under one’s feet, through a section of glass floor.

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The 20-metre-high Weston Collections Hall. This dramatic clearing in the centre of the densely packed warehouse suggests a void extracted from a solid mass. The Collections Hall contains artefacts that appear to stretch into infinitely deep space in every direction, even under one’s feet, through a section of glass floor. The objective was to create a sublime feeling of the vastness of the collection and, at the same time, a sense of illicit trespass into a space normally unavailable to public view.

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From the moment they emerge into the central Weston Collections Hall, visitors will be captivated by stunning vistas across three levels, surrounded by a cross-section of the V&A’s collections. From ancient Buddhist sculpture to PJ Harvey’s guitar, paintings by Angelica Kauffman’s circle, costumes worn by Vivien Leigh, works by Sir Frank Bowling and Hew Locke, items from the Glastonbury Music Festival, Suffragette scarves, vintage football shirts, Thomas Heatherwick’s model for the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron and road signs designed by Margaret Calvert, visitors can take their own path through over 100 curated “mini displays” hacked into the ends and sides of the storage racking.

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The largest Picasso work in the world – the rarely displayed stage cloth from the Ballets Russe Le Train Bleu – is now on display for the first time in over a decade in the David and Molly Lowell Borthwick Gallery.

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The 20-metre-high Weston Collections Hall. This dramatic clearing in the centre of the densely packed warehouse suggests a void extracted from a solid mass. The Collections Hall contains artefacts that appear to stretch into infinitely deep space in every direction, even under one’s feet, through a section of glass floor.

Anchoring the Weston Collections Hall are six large-scale objects – many have not been on display for decades due to their size. These include an architectural fragment from Robin Hood Gardens (right of image), a former residential estate in Poplar, east London.

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V&A East Storehouse’s central Weston Collections Hall stretches across three levels, with over 100 frequently changing, curated mini displays literally ‘hacked’ into the ends and sides of storage racking.

Sharing diverse, topical, and meaningful stories about the V&A’s collections and archives, storage displays centre on three key themes: Collecting Stories, Sourcebook for Design and The Working Museum.

New displays with a focus on east London creativity include items including an intricate 17th century sampler embroidered by a schoolgirl in Hackney, a late 19th century printed silk theatre programme celebrating a new music hall opening in Stratford, and a 1980s poster for Hackney-based Lenthall Road Workshop – a community printing workshop associated with local feminist, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ rights groups.

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At 6.5m x 6.5m x 5.6m, The Torrijos Ceiling is the largest object at V&A East Storehouse by cubic volume. This exquisite 15th century carved and gilded wooden ceiling comes from the now lost Torrijos Palace near Toledo in Spain.

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The Agra Colonnade is the heaviest of all objects in the collection, weighing in at 18 tonnes. This extraordinary example of 17th century Mughal architecture from the bathhouse at the fort of Agra will be the subject of two co-productions that shed new light on the artefact. The first, facilitated by artist Adam Williamson, based at Bow Arts in Tower Hamlets, includes a series of making-based workshops with local community participants creating new artworks for displays exploring the architecture, patterns and stone carving techniques used by the original Mughal artisans. The second is a new film created with Akademi Dance and a group of young dancers, many from east London and with connections to South Asia, encompassing a performance in response to the Colonnade exploring themes of identity and belonging.

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The Collections Hall is bounded by concentric layers of accessibility: the inner layer exposes open crates to the public; the middle layer is a more traditional archive; and the outermost layer contains private spaces for museum staff, conservation work, research, and deep storage where objects are protected from excessive light, dust, and human contact.

The Collections Care and Access teams will undertake technical and logistical activities across V&A East Storehouse, using specialised equipment to move and install objects. At every opportunity, when safe to do so, Museum Technicians will move threshold gates so visitors can get as close to the action as possible.

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V&A East Storehouse’s central Weston Collections Hall stretches across three levels, with over 100 frequently changing, curated mini displays literally ‘hacked’ into the ends and sides of storage racking—a strategy conceived by Diller Scofidio + Renfro to transform containers to display devices. Sharing diverse, topical, and meaningful stories about the V&A’s collections and archives, storage displays centre on three key themes: Collecting Stories, Sourcebook for Design and The Working Museum. London-based architecture and design studio IDK has designed a flexible ‘kit of parts’ system for the mini displays to allow objects to come on and off display more easily and frequently.

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V&A East Storehouse’s central Weston Collections Hall stretches across three levels, with over 100 frequently changing, curated mini displays literally ‘hacked’ into the ends and sides of storage racking.

Anchoring the Weston Collections Hall are six large-scale objects – many have not been on display for decades due to their size. These include an architectural fragment from Robin Hood Gardens (left of image), a former residential estate in Poplar, east London.