There will be a special exhibit of "Shoes: Pleasure and Pain" while we are visiting in August. I'm not sure if we will make it to the V & A, due to time restraints.
Is it likely this exhibit will be sold out if we don't buy our tickets ahead of time? If we make it to the museum, I'd like to see the exhibit.
I'd be astonished if it sold old.
The V&A is a most amazing place. I'm intending on returning there in a week or two to spend an hour or two (or 3) in the Sculpture Gallery. I want to get up close to the copy of Trajan's Column and see how much of it I can decypher.
It is always moving for me to see the WWII bomb damage still remaining on the outside of the museum.
Great! Thank you Nigel!
Susan and Monte, I hope you can get there, we'd love to hear about it. The V & A was the most incredible thing we saw in London. We were there at the end of our trip, 2013, and were kind of travelled out so did not do all the London sights we might have had we been fresher. But the Victoria and Albert just took our breath away. Just a stunning display of history, and so much more. Have a great time!
I love that museum!!! You don't have to worry about buying tickets now since you aren't sure you would be going there.
@Susan and Monte - if you go to this exhibition, please report back with your likes and dislikes! My sister and I are planning a week in London in October and I told her about this show. She doesn't want this trip to be "museum-heavy" (we went to Paris about 3 years ago and visited a museum every day, which I loved but she was kind of bored) but is very interested in the shoe exhibition.
Susan and Monte,
Thank you for posting. I hadn't yet looked into what the special exhibit would be and I think this is one I want to check out!
Sarah,
I'll be in London in September and will try to remember to report back via this post before your October trip.
Nicole L.
Thanks everyone!
Glad to hear that it shouldn't sell out. I don't know if we will make it there or not, but if we do I definitely want to see the shoe exhibit. Two years ago we were in London and we bought tickets to the Pompeii exhibit at the British Museum, and that one sold out way ahead of time. It really was amazing! I don't suppose shoes will be quite as amazing as Pompeii!
At the V&A, even when advance tickets are sold out, there are usually tickets available on the day. I've gone to a number of paid exhibits at the V&A over the years. My one suggestion would be to plan your visit early as the tickets for many exhibits will have a set entry time. If you go late in the day, all the timeslots for that day may be gone. I had that happen with the Grace Kelly exhibit a few years back and ended up going back to the museum the next morning. The only time that I experienced a long queue was for the tickets for the David Bowie exhibit 2 years ago which was sold out of advance tickets. I doubt the shoes exhibit will be as popular :)
Add me to the group that hopes to read a report. Shoes "walk the walk" through history. My appetite was whetted by a visit to the Bata shoe museum in Toronto, where I watched several women in high heels look at two-hundred-year-old shoes from the French court -- they looked the same!
