UK decorative arts museum gets facelift

London

THE Victoria and Albert Museum, the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, is completing its biggest building project in a century: a new courtyard entrance and foyer, opening on June 30, that is intended to make it easier for the public to gain access. The museum is also inaugurating a vast exhibition gallery.

British architect Amanda Levete and her team have dug into an under-used corner of the Victoria and Albert Museum to create a nearly 12,000-square-foot temporary exhibition space that will be among the largest in Britain.