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Display cases news: New Galleries opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London | |
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GLASBAU HAHN provides spectacular case works in the Ceramics Galleries and the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.
Victoria & Albert Museum, Ceramics Galleries Phase 1, 2009 The seven new Ceramics Galleries designed by Stanton Williams, London, are equipped with freestanding cases of up to 8 m length and 3.10 m height with glass top. GLASBAU HAHN has developed a new slide and turn opening mechanism (system registered for patent) which allows maximum access, with doors sliding half way to the side and then turning like a hinged door, opening 100 % on both sides. The Ceramics Galleries are part of the “V&A’s FuturePlan” to transform the museum through new galleries and beautiful redisplays of its collections. Located at the top floor of the museum with a domed ceiling and natural top-lighting, the Ceramics Galleries were purpose built in 1909 for the display of the collections. They encompass the entire history of ceramic production from the 3rd millennium BC to the present day, being encyclopaedic and global in scope with 3000 objects on display from China, Japan, Korea and South-East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Continental Europe and Britain, as well as smaller groups from Africa and the Americas. A lead donation from the Headley Trust is generously supporting the redevelopment of all together 11 Ceramics Galleries, including a major new central gallery introducing visitors to masterpieces of world ceramics presented completely in display cases manufactured by GLASBAU HAHN. We are currently building the Phase II Ceramics Galleries designed by OPERA Amsterdam, NL with study/storage showcases of up to 26 m length and 3.7 m height, planned to open in March 2010. See more information about design details and the collection:
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