The Wick List

Viewing V&A East Storehouse

The Wick Culture - The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East
Storehouse, including glass floor with
views down into the busy working store. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, including glass floor with views down into the busy working store. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

The Wick Culture - The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East
Storehouse, including over 100 mini
curated displays ‘hacked’ into the ends
and sides of the storage racking. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, including over 100 mini curated displays ‘hacked’ into the ends and sides of the storage racking. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

The Wick Culture - The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

The Wick Culture - View of a section of Robin Hood Gardens,
a former residential estate in Poplar, east
London, at V&A East Storehouse. Image
by David Parry, PA Media Assignments

Above View of a section of Robin Hood Gardens, a former residential estate in Poplar, east London, at V&A East Storehouse. Image by David Parry, PA Media Assignments

The Wick Culture - The David and Molly Lowell Borthwick
Gallery, displaying the largest Picasso
work in the world, the 1924 front stage
cloth for the Ballets Russes’ production,
Le Train Bleu. Image by Hufton + Crow for
V&A

Above The David and Molly Lowell Borthwick Gallery, displaying the largest Picasso work in the world, the 1924 front stage cloth for the Ballets Russes’ production, Le Train Bleu. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, including glass floor with views down into the busy working store. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, including over 100 mini curated displays ‘hacked’ into the ends and sides of the storage racking. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Above View of a section of Robin Hood Gardens, a former residential estate in Poplar, east London, at V&A East Storehouse. Image by David Parry, PA Media Assignments

V&A East Storehouse

Parkes Street
From 31 May

The long-anticipated V&A East unveils the first of its brand new, purpose-built spaces in Stratford this week: V&A East Storehouse. From 31 May, visitors are welcomed into this world first (in both size and scale) with free access to over a half a million works from every creative discipline.

You’ll need a day to explore this one – V&A East Storehouse is bigger than thirty basketball courts and spans four storeys. Taking over the former Olympic media centre, the spaces, designed by Diller Scofidio+Renfro (with support from UK-based architects Austin-Smith:Lord) promise a unique, and totally different kind of museum experience, with unprecedented access to the V&A collection.

The size of the space is important as it allows visitors the chance to see huge objects and artefacts from the collection, but it’s also a chance to get up close to the tiny pieces too – imagine things as small as pins used to secure a 17th century ruff to a two-storey section of a maisonette flat from the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, demolished in 2017. There is literally something for everyone here and we can’t wait to spend time in this spectacular and important addition to the UK’s cultural scene.