V&A East Storehouse
Museums & Science Centres · Stratford, Outer London
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Open now — closes 10pm
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- Changing Places toilet
- SEN friendly
Blue Badge bays only on Parkes Street, a private road; maximum 4 hour stay on weekdays.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
V&A East Storehouse is the V&A's working collections store, opened in 2025 inside the Here East building in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Rather than a conventional gallery, it puts a quarter of a million stored objects on view across four levels of open shelving, glass-floored walkways and small curated displays, so children can spot costumes, ceramics and furniture up close. The Weston Collections Hall holds more than a hundred mini displays to explore at your own pace, and the David Bowie Centre shows parts of his archive, including a hanging rail of costumes. Visitors can also request an object from storage to examine in a study room. There is a café, lockers for bags and coats, and a quiet room. Some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Pushchair buggy board
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Baby carrier or slingBetter than a pram anywhere with steps or mud.
- Lunch boxes
- Bum bag
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