The Victoria and Albert Museum , often shortened V& With , is a very large English museum located in the middle of London, in the district South Kensington. This museum was founded in 1852 under the name of South Kensington Museum then renamed of its current name in 1899.

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The museum is specialized in decorative arts: one finds there all kinds of very diverse objects and very varied times: since Antiquity sumérienne until the 21e century. Dresses and accessories of Haute couture, Movable , Pottery S, Crystal manufacture, and all kinds of other parts of arts (tapestries, silverware, toys, statuettes, etc). One finds there a very beautiful collection of objects and furniture of the Europe of the Moyen-âge, of India and the Far East. The British Galleries present very many parts of which monumental the Lit of Ware, 15th century.