• Young V&A review – child’s play with added wonder

    Young V&A review – child’s play with added wonder
    There are moments of overdirection, but the £13m revamp of the former Museum of Childhood in east London is a lighter, brighter magical toyshopAn arched passage is cut through a hemicone, one that is half finished in reddish timber boarding, half in a painted imitation of richly veined green marble. Part ancient tomb, part wigwam, part child’s building block, this portal is geometrically grand but dimensionally modest. It leads to something called the Mini Museum, a space intended fo

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