🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- Changing Places toilet
- SEN friendly
No car park run by the V&A. Public Blue Badge bays on Carpenters Road, first come first served, cannot be booked. Nearest general parking is at Westfield Stratford City. Bike parking to the side and rear of the building.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
V&A East Museum is the second of the V&A's two east London sites in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, opened in April 2026 across five floors of galleries, exhibition space and event areas. Its permanent Why We Make galleries bring together more than 500 objects from many centuries and cultures, with work by Leigh Bowery and Althea McNish placed beside new east London acquisitions. The galleries were created with a youth collective, and a changing programme of exhibitions and events runs through the building, including a Thursday evening DJ residency on the upper ground floor. A landmark exhibition traces British culture through Black British music. Families can pair a visit with the V&A East Storehouse, a short walk across the park. Facilities include a cafe with children's options, a shop, free storage lockers, a buggy park, lifts to every floor and a Changing Places toilet. Some temporary 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.
- Notebook
- Travel games
- Portable phone charger
- Tissues
- Plasters
- Backseat organiser
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