On June 3 I had the pleasure of visiting the newly opened Victoria & Albert East Storehouse, a new infrastructure located in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, east of London.<\/p>\n
It is a large building of 16,000m2, designed by the Diller Scofidio+Renfro studio, which houses more than half a million cultural objects belonging to the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum of Art and Design.<\/p>\n
The objects are sometimes presented in their own packing and conservation boxes, or arranged on tramex shelves typical of the repositories. At the same time, they are grouped in a didactic way, or around a specific theme, with informative posters to help visitors find their way around the galleries.<\/p>\n
The center also has large-format installations, such as the curtain signed by Picasso for the Russian ballets, the coffered ceiling of the now disappeared Torrijos Palace in Toledo or Lloyd Wright’s Kaufmann office, and a “study” space where up to 5 objects can be viewed individually on demand, if requested in advance.<\/p>\n
Halfway between a warehouse and a museum, this installation (like the Depot Boijmans in Rotterdam) represents an interesting variant within collection centers: one that houses a large number of objects in a densified space (as in a warehouse), but open to the public and relatively musealized to allow direct observation (as in a museum).<\/p>\n
Although there are already more or less timid examples of visitable warehouses, they are smaller and more restricted spaces, so that we are clearly facing a new experience for the visitor that enriches the modalities of enjoyment of heritage.<\/p>\n
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