During the same journey this spring where I visited The Cluny Museum in Paris and The Tower of London and The British Museum, I also visited the V&A.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design (that is: old stuff that looks cool) it's located in London, and I'm fairly sure the organization system there is determined by some sort of game involving a blindfold and lawn darts. It is a meandering labyrinth of nifty-looking objects stuffed anywhere and everywhere with no clear progression as to why one room of stuff is next to another. Getting lost there is easy, but getting lost there is kind of fun.
Anyway, I snapped a few photos of the swordly stuff and thought I'd share them here. :D (Click to enlarge)
Quick shot of the exterior:
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After stepping into the main entrance
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Whatever this thing is:
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Hallway towards more stuff. Marble statues all through it for some reason.
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A giant life-sized rhino puppet. Why not?
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Right then. Swords. Have an authentic nihonto or two:
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