The V&A East Storehouse reinvents the idea of museum archives and storage. With a design led by New York-based practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro (and supported by Austin-Smith:Lord), the Storehouse brings treasures out of storage and into public view for the first time in generations.

The centre, located within the Here East building in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London’s East, opened in May 2025. It is a purpose-built home for 250,000 350,000 books and 1,000 archives from the V&A’s collection of fashion, textiles, furniture, theater and performance, metalwork, ceramics, glass, sculpture, architecture, paintings and product design.

A central public collection hall turns the storage inside out. A rich array of objects will be on display for visitors to explore – from some of the smallest curiosities in the collection to the largest and most significant rooms and building fragments.

Further spaces within the Centre host pop-up displays, workshops, performances and screenings alongside live encounters with the museum’s work – from conservation and research to exhibition preparation.

Images © Diller Scofidio + Renfro

V&A East is timely and ambitious, allowing everyone to discover the national collections we look after in entirely new ways. With a 360-degree view of the V&A’s work – from collecting and conservation to experimental research and development – this future-facing project brings art, design and performance into dialogue with current affairs, and will inspire the next generation of creative thinkers and the makers of the future.

 Whether in Stratford, South Kensington, Scotland or Shenzhen, we are continuing to open up the vast collection that the V&A holds on the nation’s behalf, and the V&A East has become a place that sparks the imagination for generations to come.

Tristram Hunt – V&A Director