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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nick Clark

Young V&A first look: at last, London has a museum that is truly for kids instead of just about them

For fear of sounding like an old codger, kids today don’t know how good they have it. Growing up in the Eighties, the prospect of being dragged round a museum was tantamount to a surprise weekend session of double maths.

Exhibits in dusty cabinets, impenetrable academic text on the walls, low-lit venues where children were suffered rather than welcomed. Fast forward to 2023, and most of Britain’s biggest museums and galleries have embraced families. And now, London has a venue for children really to call their own.

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