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Architecture for all: the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Victoria and Albert Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Mark Haworth-Booth  and
Michael Snodin
Mark Haworth-Booth*
Affiliation:
Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings, Victoria & Albert Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2RL, UK
Michael Snodin*
Affiliation:
Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings, Victoria & Albert Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2RL, UK
*
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A project to enhance access to architectural drawings and manuscripts has recently begun at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Two major collections of designs - those in the V&A’s Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection and those in the Special Collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) - will be housed together at the Museum from 2003. In this article two of the V&A’s curators outline the planning for the move, which involves modifying existing space to provide new accommodation for staff, storage and consultation by the public, and describe the broader partnership between the two institutions, which promises much for the study and appreciation of architecture.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 5 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2001

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