VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, Introduction
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- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
Hi, I'm Debbie, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.
Today I'll accompany you through the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is one of the most original museums in London!
You've probably often heard about this collection of "applied" art. In fact, today the term is a bit obsolete, but at the end of the 19th century when the museum was founded, it displayed prototypes that were used to make furniture, furnishings, and "trendy" decorations.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxony possibly loved each other as no other royal couple in English history ever has, and form a symbolic pair in the name of the museum founded in 1852....