V&A and H&N Museums

Victoria and Albert Museum

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The Victoria and Albert museum is located on Cromwell road in London, and is one of the largest museums of decorative arts in the world.It was founded in 1852, and was inaugurated in 1857 by the queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert. Here tourists can admire the world's largest collection of works of the Italian Renaissance outside of Italy, and 145 galleries of jewelry, sculptures and costumes. The museum has two entrances: the traditional one on Cromwell road and the modern one on Exhibition road, both free, except for the temporary exhibitions

Where is it located?

The Fashion Gallery

The Jewelry Gallery

The Cast Court

This museum is huge and to visit it all would take a whole day.

The Galleries

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In room number 48 there are the cartoons of Raphael, initially made for the Sistine Chapel and now kept in the Vatican Pinacoteca.

In gallery 22 you can find the three graces of Antonio Canova, representing the three daughters of Zeus and symbolizing splendor, joy and prosperity

In room 57 of the British Gallery, tourists can admire the "Great Ceramic Bed" by Hans Vredeman de Vries, dating from the 16th century and famous for being mentioned in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Raphael's Cartoons.

The Three Graces by Antonio Canova.

The “Great Ware Bed” by Hans Vredeman de Vries

Main Cafè

The Haunted Chair

Shopping at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Museum curiosities

History and natural museum

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The Natural and History Museum is one of the largest and most important natural history museums in the world, located in South Kensington and houses some of the most important national natural history collections and over 70 million specimens organized in four areas: botany, Mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. It is an outstanding and highly interactive museum, and is also a major research institute.

Where is it located?

Tourists can visit most of the museum in about 2-3 hours, and admission is free, except for some temporary exhibitions. The museum is divided into two parts: the Life Galleries, with areas dedicated to zoology, paleontology and human biology, and the Earth Galleries, with areas dedicated to the history of the Earth, Geology and Mineral Resources. There are 20 galleries and they are divided into four zones with a different color:- the blue zone, from dinosaurs to mammals;- the green zone for evolution of the planet;- the red zone is dedicated to the planet;- the orange zone, which include the Darwin Center, one of the museum's main attraction.

The Galleries

In the red zone, you can discover the world and its changes through simulations. Tourists can also admire the thermal suits and equipment used by scientists to study volcanoes, casts of some victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and various techniques to defend themselves from earthquakes.

In the Natural History Museum tourists can admire among the most famous dinosaur exhibitions with their history. Among them, there is the first T-rex discovered.

Darwin Centre

The red zone

The blue zone

The Darwin Centre is an extension of the Natural History Museum, and houses a collection of millions of insects and plant species. The centre, which is also a research site, is dedicated to biodiversity, the different forms of life on the planet and the consequences of climate change.

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The fashion gallery houses clothes that have marked history, such as shoes dating back to ancient Egypt, a dress dating back to 1700 and to the iconic dresses of Alexander McQueen.

David Garrick and Eva Marie Veigel

Located in room 118a, this chair is said to be haunted by the ghost of the wife of the English actor David Garrick, Eva Marie Veigel. Most of the time, in fact, the cushion of the chair is solid, but mysteriously several times it has been seen deflated, just as if someone was sitting on it.

The Main Café is considered to be one of the most beautiful coffèe house museums in the world, and it is divided into three rooms decorated in Victorian style.

Il V&A ha uno dei migliori negozi di souvenir, che vende tè e scatole di biscotti vintage, ma anche articoli ispirati alle stampe di William Morris, edizioni limitate di articoli e mostre temporanee organizzate dal museo. Questo museo ha anche un negozio online.

The cast court is one of the largest and most visited areas, and contains reproductions of important sculptures, such as Michelangelo's David or the Porta Traiana.

The Jewellery Gallery houses some of the most important jewels, such as the diamond crown of Queen Victoria or Beyoncé's butterfly ring.