Review of: Victoria & Albert Museum (Asia section), South Kensington, London

3/5 (minimum 1)

by Sanyukta on 04 Oct 2007

During the last three years of my stay in London, I had made it a point to visit as many art museums (and as many times) as my schedules would let me to. Besides The National Portrait Gallery at Trafalgar Square, I should say the next very important collection of historic artworks was definitely the Victoria and Albert Museum, (South Kensington, Cromwell Road).

It regularly hosts interesting and world-class collection of paintings, sculptures and also renown artists' collections. One of my best ever was Leonardo Da Vinci show at V&A museum (oct-nov, 2007). It was fAntastic! Generally the entry fee is also not more than £10-15 and they make sure you get it's worth.

It was a total revelation for me as I found a total section dedicated to Nepal. Among a very few entries like from India, Pakistan, Tibet, etc, that within just a lobby allocated for Asiatic collection, to find an entire wing populated by historic artifacts from Nepal really made me feel important.
However, the Nepalese collection at V&A were from around 12-14th century which is really not a museum's pride, since other British collections (Cambridge, etc) and American State Museums do collect popular Nepalese works from even earlier period.

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Victoria & Albert Museum (Asia section), South Kensington, London

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