London to get free, permanent David Bowie 80,000 items display at V & A Museum. The exhibition will include more than 80,000 items that span six decades of the cultural icon’s career.
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The V&A Storehouse is a new working store and visitor attraction in the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, and is home over 500,000 works, including the Glastonbury Festival Archives, costumes from PJ Harvey and Elton John, designer couture, vintage shirts, Samurai swords and many more. It will also house over 100 curated mini-displays. Now, David Bowie’s vast collection is part of it and available for public view.
V&A secures David Bowie archive with £10m donation from Blavatnik Family Foundation & Warner Music.
The acquisition follows the V&A’s blockbuster 2013 exhibition, David Bowie Is…, which marked the first time a museum had been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive. The exhibition was seen by over two million people around the world as part of its international tour, becoming one of the V&A’s most popular exhibitions of all times.
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The David Bowie Centre, which includes over 90,000 of his personal items, has opened September 13 and will feature nine special displays
From today, fans can now book tickets through the V&A website to visit the centre itself, or you go through the collection online and search for the Bowie material and make an appointment to view said items either in the V&A storehouse study room or within the Bowie study room.
A vast free attraction in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park that partially opens to the public on May 31.
First teased back in February 2023, the centre will open on September 13 at the V&A East Storehouse. Today, V&A has announced a number of special displays at the museum, including specially curated exhibitions by prominent musicians.
The David Bowie Centre will feature over 90,000 of Bowie’s personal items and nine special displays featuring newly uncovered revelations, items and unreleased projects – these displays can be booed for one-on-one time by visitors to get an intimate, closer look at Bowie’s archive.
