Saturday, February 19, 2011

V&A = Crystal Palace


The V&A Museum was founded partly with the immense earnings from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Though the Crystal Palace where the Exhibition took place burned down in the 1930s, there are bits of the current V&A building that are vaguely reminiscent of that once-great structure.

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