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It is a huge thing to acquire but far from the biggest item in the V&A’s collection. A 19th-century plaster cast of Trajans Column, for example, is 38 metres high.
Christopher Turner, keeper of the design, architecture and digital department, said the V&A had been preserving and exhibiting large fragments of architecture since its foundation, including the 17th-century timber facade of Sir Paul Pindar’s house in Bishopsgate, London, and the gilded music room saved from Norfolk House in St James Square, London.
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- V&A acquires segment of Robin Hood Gardens council estate, Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 13:03