V&A East unveils new creative vision

V&A East will comprise of two sister sites currently under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The V&A East Storehouse will open in 2024 and offer a new immersive visitor experience providing “unprecedented public access” to 5,000 years of creativity. While a short walk across the park, V&A East Museum, opening in 2025, will celebrate global creativity and making.

Both sites are part of East Bank, the Mayor of London’s 1.1 billion pounds Olympic legacy project, which will create a new arts, innovation and education hub in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

The V&A said that its founding mission is to make arts accessible to all and its new east location will place a spotlight on global stories of creativity. It also adds that V&A East will be much more than just a museum or collections store, as it will be a creative campus and social space embedded within its local community.