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Fashion museum V&A receives £1.75m grant

Published
Jun 2, 2016

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is one of the British capital's foremost fashion destinations. Last year, the museum showed "Savage Beauty", the Alexander McQueen exhibition, which drew 493,043 visitors, the highest number ever for a V&A show.

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Exhibitions so far this year include "Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear," the largest museum exhibition of underwear ever to go on display. Now, the institution has announced that it has received a £1.75m grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The money will be used to fund a new V&A Research Institute (VARI), which will host collaborative research and residency projects. The V&A is also working on redesigning its public spaces in South Kensington, and has plans for a V&A East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and new storage facilities in East London.

Among the first research project for VARI will be the conservation and digital reproduction of the Leman Album, an 18th-century volume containing the earliest surviving set of European silk designs, the museum said.

Bill Sherman, Director of Research and Collections at the V&A said: “VARI will give new life to the Museum’s original mission of using exemplary collections to advance knowledge of the designed world. It will make the objects we house and the expertise we host more accessible to the broadest possible audience. We are grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its extraordinary support and for prompting and shaping our approach.”

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