A first look at V&A East Museum: step inside London’s most exciting new cultural addition

“It wasn’t that difficult to convince people to lend us objects because it’s the V&A,” says curator Jacqueline Springer as we stand in the brand-new V&A East Museum. After all, people’s willingness to loan, and even donate, personal objects has made the V&A one of the most influential museum collections in the world. Now, London’s most exciting new museum in recent memory has finally opened.

It’s the latest V&A space in the capital, part of a lineage that began with the Victoria and…