Museums and Galleries: previous case study
In December 2007, Trustees awarded £1.75 million to help create ten new galleries displaying the Victoria and Albert Museum's magnificent medieval and renaissance collections. The Wolfson grant was specifically associated with the 'Renaissance Art and Ideas' gallery. The new galleries opened in December 2009 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. "For the first time, the museum's astonishing treasures from these defining moments of European civilisation are rationally and beautifully displayed. And the effect is exalting, transcendental."
The Museum has, in recent years, also received funding from the joint programme with DCMS (e.g. for the 'Sculpture in Asia' gallery, 2007) and toward acquisition of objects (such as Viscount Castlereagh's Inkstand in 2003).
