"Set to be unveiled next March, the new Gilbert Galleries have been designed by the London-based Citizens Design Bureau practice. The number of galleries will increase from four to seven and will occupy adjacent former offices overlooking both the John Madejski Garden and Exhibition Road, as part of the V&A's Future Plan development programme. Project funders include the Gilbert Trust for the Arts and The National Lottery Heritage Fund."
"Gold boxes, including diamond-set snuffboxes commissioned by the 18th-century monarch Frederick II of Prussia, often referred to as Frederick The Great, will be shown in another new room. Meanwhile two large-scale views of the Colosseum and the Roman Forum by the 19th-century Italian artist Domenico Moglia, a micro-mosaic pioneer, will go on show for the first time. These large-scale pieces are intricately made from tiny pieces of coloured glass, some only a few millimetres square."
The Victoria and Albert Museum will expand the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection galleries from four to seven rooms, opening next March. The redesign by Citizens Design Bureau will add space overlooking the John Madejski Garden and Exhibition Road and is funded by the Gilbert Trust for the Arts and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. New displays will include about 200 gold boxes and intricate micro-mosaics made from tiny coloured glass pieces. A dedicated room will present new provenance research, including investigation of two silver-gilt gates taken from Kyiv's Pechersk Lavra and acquired by William Randolph Hearst in 1935. A conference on Ukrainian heritage will take place next September.
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