Image: View across the Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse © Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The new home of the David Bowie Centre will open its doors next spring, ahead of the V&A East Museum
The V&A East’s working store and free visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, is to open to the public on 31 May 2025.
The new location houses over half a million works, and will allow visitors self-guided tours, interspersed with experiential installations and over 100 small, curated displays embedded into the collection stores.
The first of two new V&A East sites, its opening will be part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Taking over a large section of the former London 2012 Olympics Media and Broadcast Centre (now Here East) V&A East Storehouse opens ahead of the V&A East Museum, which is scheduled to open in spring 2026.
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The V&A East Storehouse’s David Bowie Centre will open later next year, 13 September 2025, with a series of rotating displays, installations, guest-curated content and the opportunity to book to see anything from The David Bowie Archive.
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Tim Reeve, Deputy Director and COO of the V&A, and Chair of the East Bank Board, said: “visitors will be encouraged to immerse themselves in the magical behind-the-scenes world of museums and empowered to make their own journeys through the V&A’s global collections.
“Our world-first Order an Object experience opens up the V&A’s collections to everyone on their own terms, and on a scale never possible before. We hope this will shift the dial in creating more transparent and personalised experiences, and for everyone to find their own inspiration in V&A East Storehouse.”
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the opening of V&A East Storehouse next year will be a “wonderful addition to our capital’s cultural landscape”.
