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• Letter: Sir Michael Hopkins obituary

  27-06-2023 18:02
  
  In the 1980s Sir Michael Hopkins and his wife and colleague Patty played a crucial role in clarifying the confused interior spaces of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Brought in by the director, Sir Roy Strong, they collaborated with a team of curators (of which I was one) to map out what was to become the basis for the re-configuration of the V&A’s gallery displays and the re-interpretation of its collections.This resulted in the museum’s masterplan and the creation of se
  
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• Young V&A review: ‘The cobwebs have been truly blown away’

  27-06-2023 12:58
  
  After a three-year, £13m reimagining, the former Museum of Childhood has been reborn as a joyful and inspiring paradise of playFor a museum aimed at children, the V&A’s Museum of Childhood has never felt very much like fun. Standing like an imposing Victorian workhouse in London’s Bethnal Green, its cavernous interior has always had the air of a mausoleum of toys, with stacks of dusty games sealed disappointingly behind glass. Rows of Victorian doll’s houses and their
  
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