The Victoria and Albert is the largest museum of design and decorative arts. It wasn't my first choice but when I saw the line to get into the Natural History museum, I made the most of it. Turned out to be very interesting.
It's a beautiful building chock full of all kinds of objects: furniture, sculpture, clothes, rugs, iron works and other odds and ends.
How to describe a hanging sculpture made of the flattened wind instruments? Thank goodness for photography.
Vintage advertising posters from the late 1800's. The Coleans mustard tin hasn't changed much since then.
A 15th century staircase from Brittany. Who would even think to collect something like this?
The clothing exhibit was more interesting than expected. It covered British fashion over the past 300 years.
They did a good job explaining the changing technologies that lent to style changes over the years.
Best of all was an exhibit of odd items without explanation. You had to guess what they were and then were given the answers. My favorite was this spoon which has a stip of metal across it. It was designed to keep your mustache from getting covered in soup. To the left are a pair of glove stretchers.
I popped into their cafe, which they claim was the first museum restaurant in the world. It certainly looked the part.
I stayed inside the lines with a cream scone set with Earl Grey tea.
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