Victoria and Albert Museum Expert Private Guided Walking Tour
Bring your curiosity with you and discover the highlights of the V&A as Dr. Hannah Clark a V&A MA trained Design Historian guides you through the world’s greatest museum of decorative arts and design using her specialist knowledge to bring to life the fascinating stories of the people, objects, craftsmanship and designs held within.
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Victoria and Albert Museum Expert Private Guided Walking Tour
What's included in Victoria and Albert Museum Expert Private Guided Walking Tour
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
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Start by hearing about the Museum’s founding story and behind the scene’s knowledge about how the museum and its exhibitions operate now, before moving to the beautiful Renaissance Galleries where you will learn how many of today’s everyday ideas and objects we think of as representing ‘home’ had their origins in the Renaissance world. Using highlights of the collection we will explore how new exciting Renaissance ideas and innovations around international travel and exploration, science and innovation, fashion, food, health and leisure transformed design!
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Next we move to the British Galleries and the Tudor, Stuart and Eighteenth-century sections. From the grand to the humble - a jewelled 17th century ear pick, to the Great Bed of Ware, and the origins and objects of British tea drinking – we will explore the exciting ways design shaped and was shaped by people’s lives in these times.
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Our third act is one of contrasts and variation! We move to the spectacular Victorian Cast Courts to see highlights including full size casts of Michelangelo’s David, Trajan’s Column and Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, before contrasting it with the intimate, jewel-box space of the Jewellery Gallery, the vast Raphael Courts, Tipu’s fearsome mechanical tiger, and the Museum’s beautiful tiled Victorian William Morris, Poynter and Gamble tea rooms.
Inclusions
- Private Tour
- Expert V&A MA trained Design Historian led tour
- Food and Drink
- Transportation
- Hotel pickup/drop-off
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Dr Hannah Clark will meet you outside the main entrance to the Victoria & Albert Museum on Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, UK. She will be carrying a placard with your name displayed on it.
