Victoria and Albert Museum

We visited the Victoria and Albert Museum today and it was the last time we had our tour guide Trudy! It was a pretty sad moment but she definitely saved the best for last. It is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. They even have a David Bowe exhibition! The British do love their David Bowe.
What was the coolest was seeing all of the ceramics. This is the largest and most comprehensive ceramics and glass collection in the world, with over 80,000 objects from around the world. Every populated continent is represented. The one thing with this museum is the cultural fusion that they bring into it. It's collection has pieces from almost every time span. When bringing in that much cultural fusion it really allows you to see each time period and you are able to compare and contrast the differences and how each culture brought their own twist to it. I loved seeing all of the different cultures under one roof.

 One of the coolest parts of going through the museum was the end where we saw all of the clothing throughout the years of british history. It was really interesting to see how the clothing changed and how some of the mens clothing still looks so similar to the clothing men wear today. The jackets looked almost identically to a jacket someone would wear today. I would actually wear one of the jackets we saw and i'm sure I would get plenty of comments on it without a doubt. With the different clothing it brought out class and artistic expression. What you wore showed your class and where you stood in society. Back in the day and even today what you wear shows your class and where you stand in society. It also showed artistic expression because when the women started to wear skirts everyone went crazy. Women were allowed to show their legs and have some expression to what they wore everyday.