Nursery World - Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

Local primary school children are contributing ideas to the multi-million-pound revamp of the V&A Museum of Childhood in plans to make it the ‘world’s most joyful museum for children’.

The redevelopment is intended to make the museum more immersive and interactive and will include a re-landscaped outdoor play space.

Other plans include ‘The kaleidoscope’, a new interactive installation in the main galleries inspired by optical toys from the V&A’s collection, a new lower ground entrance to improve access for school groups and buggies, as well as restoring the original Victorian building.

Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, said, ‘The V&A Museum of Childhood is beloved by its local community with a unique and wonderful story to tell as East London’s first museum.

‘This flagship project for the V&A will unlock the V&A Museum of Childhood’s huge potential to fire imagination, spark ingenuity, and become the world’s most joyful museum for children, families and young people. It will support art and design education and help fulfil the museum’s ambition to inspire future generations of artists, designers, architects, engineers and makers.’

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