The V&A’s restructuring plans are baffling, disturbing and wrong
Tanya Harrod | The Spectator | 18th March 2021
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is widely seen as the pre-eminent museum for design and the decorative arts. Might drastic cost savings forced by the pandemic undermine its position? Instead of its current focus on “material specialisms” like ceramics, metals, textiles, it proposes restructuring around historical periods. Protests one critic, it was “never a historical museum”. This change may undermine “over a hundred years of knowledge transfer”.
