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Staff at V&A site in London vote to strike over toilet and water breaks

Union calling for two paid breaks a day in what it says is punishing schedule for Storehouse ‘order an object’ workers

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29

V&A East: the spirit of the 19th-century cultural campus of ‘Albertopolis’ lives on

This year the V&A opens its new outpost in east London. In 2025 it unveiled the so-called Storehouse, and its new V&A East Museum opens in April 2026. V&A East is part of a new cultural campus, on the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics, dedicated to collections, education and…

The Conversation · Jan 6

How the new V&A Storehouse is reshaping public access to museum collections

Around 70-90% of museum collections around the world are kept in storage . Often housed in buildings far away from their public institution, they represent a picture of hidden cultural and historical resources.

The Conversation · Nov 12, 2025

London’s V&A Storehouse museum lets visitors get their hands on 5,000 years of creativity

Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage

The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2025

Like an IKEA Warehouse for the Art Crowd — Why the V&A's New, 'Self-Serve' East End Outpost Is Our Latest Obsession

We visited the "so 'not museum'" V&A East Storehouse to understand how it works, pastry-tasting and 'Order an Object' scheme included

Livingetc · Jun 4, 2025

The Guardian view on a new era for museums: letting the public take control

Editorial: The V&A East Storehouse and the award-winning Manchester Museum show radical ways forward

The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2025

Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&A’s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers

The Victoria & Albert’s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its ‘order an object’ service and gets intimate with some national treasures – including ‘the biggest Picasso in the world’

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025

‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2025

Toby Jones’s next campaign? Misinformation, and a huge immersive theatre show

Meera Syal also to star in London production reflecting producer’s experience of censorship in Georgia

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2025

Storehouse: are you ready for London's next big immersive show?

Storehouse is the new immersive show about media manipulation coming to a warehouse in Deptford that will be one of London’s must-sees this summer

Evening Standard · Mar 12, 2025