Victoria and Albert Museum
The world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design — over 2.8 million objects, free to walk in.
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The Cast Courts hold full-scale plaster casts of Trajan's Column and Michelangelo's David. You can still eat in the three refreshment rooms too — the first catering service for museum visitors anywhere, restored to use.
What to look for
- The Cast Courts: two skylit rooms three storeys high with 83-ft (25 m) ceilings — one dominated by a full-scale replica of Trajan's Column cast in two parts, the other by a full-size cast of Michelangelo's David.
- The three refreshment rooms still serving food — Burne-Jones stained glass in the Morris Room, moulded ceramic tiles and an enamelled-metal ceiling in the Gamble Room.
- Pockmarks in the Exhibition Road stonework, left by fragments from bombs that fell in November 1940 and April 1941.
Free entry; the subway tunnel entrance reopened in 2004, and the Fashion Gallery closed at the end of 2025 for a major rebuild (reopening Spring 2027).
Victoria and Albert Museum is one of 40 sights worth the detour in London, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the London pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in London
- British MuseumThe room where a dead language got its voice back — and you walk in for free.
- Buckingham PalaceThe balcony where a whole country turns up to watch a family wave — with 775 rooms behind it.
- Westminster AbbeyNearly every English monarch since 1066 has been crowned on the same worn patch of floor.
- Big BenThe clang in a thousand establishing shots comes from a cracked bell that's rung slightly off-key since 1859.
- Tower of LondonWilliam the Conqueror's keep turned royal prison, where two queens lost their heads and the Crown Jewels still sit under guard.
- Tower BridgeA Victorian drawbridge dressed as a Gothic castle, its roadway still splitting open for passing ships.