From ancient Egyptian shoes to a curtain Picasso designed, London’s V&A East Storehouse offers ‘close interactions’ with 250,000 objects

A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight.

Only a fraction of their items are on display, with the rest locked away in storage.

But not at the new V&A East Storehouse, where London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has opened up its storerooms for visitors to view – and in many cases touch – the items within.

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