Home to more than 2.3 million objects spanning 5,000 years of human ingenuity, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection covers fashion and photography, sculpture and ceramics, architecture, theatre and performance.
Last year, due to the pandemic, it closed for the first time since a brief shutdown in the Second World War, but the break gave its conservators, curators and technicians the chance to restore some of the artefacts.
Now a new series of Secrets Of The Museum takes you behind the scenes, and tells the stories behind the priceless objects.
SHIRLEY’S LICENCE TO THRILL
A new series on BBC2, Secrets Of The Museum, tells the stories behind some of the priceless objects at the V&A Museum including Dame Shirley Bassey s favourite ostrich-feather catsuit