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V&A East Storehouse opens in 2025, showcasing vast cultural treasures, writes Neandra Etienne.

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Photo: Dolls, before 1910, Japan move to V&A
East Storehouse. ©Mary Ngwu
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The V&A museum completed its biggest collection move by relocating over 250,000 objects, 350,000 library books and nearly 1,000 archives to its new East Storehouse.

Two free cultural destinations, V&A East Storehouse and Museum will open up the V&A collection for all. 

V&A East Storehouse opens at Here East in 2025, as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Visit: www.vam.ac.uk/east




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