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Seven miles of galleries, from Trajan's Column in plaster to the first iPhone.
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In Victoria and Albert Museum.
A hundred and forty-five galleries and 2.8 million objects, free, and impossible to do in one go. The Cast Courts of 1873 are the room people remember: two top-lit halls of full-size plaster copies, Trajan's Column sawn in two because nothing in London was tall enough, Michelangelo's David facing it across the way. Nearby hang the Raphael Cartoons, seven wall-sized designs for the Sistine Chapel tapestries, on loan from the Crown since 1865. Elsewhere: the Jewellery Gallery, three thousand pieces from a Celtic breastplate to Queen Victoria's sapphire coronet; the Ardabil Carpet, the oldest dated carpet in the world, lit for a few minutes at a time; the Gilbert Collection's gold boxes and micromosaics; seven rooms of baroque and rococo in Europe 1600 – 1815; Design 1900 – Now, where the first iPhone sits beside trainers knitted from confiscated fishing nets; Theatre and Performance; and the Photography Centre. Tipu's Tiger and the Great Bed of Ware are both in here somewhere. The Fashion Gallery is shut for redevelopment until autumn 2028.
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