Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A Time for Play
Galmstrup Architects were 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 Waterfall Theatre
The film encourages young people to make, stage and film their own home ‘window theatre’. The works was prepared during the COVID lockdown and encourages a way to interact informally between inside and outside. It also makes homage to the former water fountain outside the V&A Museum of Childhood as an informal urban feature for people to gather.
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 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 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
