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Display cases news: New Medieval and Renaissance Galleries | |
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The V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, opened in December 2009, are housing one of the world's most remarkable collections, outstanding in its depth and range, containing some of the greatest surviving treasures of European civilisation between 300 and 1600 AD. This collection of Medieval and Renaissance art includes textiles, paintings, sculpture, glass, metalwork, prints, manuscripts, furniture, ceramics and jewellery. Ten new galleries, occupying the entire East wing of the Museum and spread over three levels, show over 1800 objects in a new chronological sequence of displays in 111 GLASBAU HAHN cases, telling the story of European art and design from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the Renaissance period. Conservators ensure that the artefacts are looking their best aesthetically and are environmentally stable for long-term display – inside their carefully designed GLASBAU HAHN all glass display cases. London based Architects MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects), working with a team of specialist curators, conservators and educators, have designed the new galleries, reconfiguring existing museum spaces and constructing a new day-lit gallery from a previously unused area. Recently; enthusiastic writer S. Bayley wrote in the British Guardian: “It is an entirely new museum-within-a museum … exalting, transcendental”. PDF A substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has been awarded to the V&A, and numerous private donors support the development of the new Medieval and Renaissance galleries, a £30 million project and to date the biggest project the museum has undertaken to complete the first Phase of its “Future Plan”.
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