Victoria & Albert Museum - Time for Play

Galmstrup Architects was appointed as Designer in Residence exploring outdoor play. The residency was linked to the transformation of the V&A Museum of Childhood’s into Young V&A and focused on the museums connection to its urban realm. The work developed as a series of interventions investigating the transition between the street and the gallery through the process of making and play.

The Gallery of Failures
The Labyrinth Puzzle plays with the famous mosaics floor at the heart of the V&A Museum of Childhood. There are no right or wrongs just a playful way getting from A to B.

The Trapped Daylight
The Trapped Daylight series documents the V&A Museum of Childhood’s interaction with its neighbouring garden - The Museum Garden on the old Bethnal Green common.

The Outdoor Gallery
The Interruption is an threedimentional interpretation of the mosaic floor. The structure is made of modular tubes which can be assembled in various formation and interact with its setting. The intention is for the structure to travel with the V&As outreach team during the temporary closure of the Museum of Childhood carrying a story of the museum with them.

CLIENT: Victoria & Albert Museum
LOCATION: V&A Museum of Childhood, London
DESIGNER IN RESIDENCE: Galmstrup Architects