V&A Africa: Exploring Hidden Histories

The V&A's engagement with and changing view of art and design from Africa since the earliest days of the museum is the subject of this display of some 100 objects. The first in a series of displays to highlights the V&A's holdings of art and design from Africa, 'Hidden Histories' includes photographs, jewellery, textiles and sculptures, revealing some of the stories that lie behind the acquisition of the V&A's African objects.