About the museum
The story of the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington was founded in 1852 after the Great Exhibition, and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1899. It is the world's leading museum of art and design.
Alongside fashion, ceramics, sculpture and furniture, it holds paintings and the Raphael Cartoons, as well as one of the largest collections of Constable.
The collection
The V&A holds more than 2.8 million objects of art and design, from medieval tapestries and Renaissance sculpture to fashion, furniture, jewellery and photography. Its paintings include the Raphael Cartoons, on loan from the Royal Collection.
It also holds the largest collection of John Constable's oil sketches and paintings, given by his daughter Isabel, and miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard.
At ArtLogia you can order 98 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 51 artists led by John Constable, Edwin Landseer and Raphael.
- paintings to order
- 98
- artists
- 51
- art movements
- 12
- years covered
- 1400–1882
The building
Aston Webb designed the main façade on Cromwell Road, laid in 1899 by Queen Victoria. Inside, the museum preserves its Victorian refreshment rooms decorated by William Morris and others, and a porcelain-tiled courtyard entrance was added on Exhibition Road in 2017.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Entry is free; rest in the John Madejski Garden, the museum's central courtyard.
