David Bowie Archive Secured By London’s V&A Museum

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David Bowie Archive Secured By London’s V&A MuseumAlamy Stock PhotoSpread the loveDavid Bowie will be the subject of a major new permanent exhibition centre in London. From 2025, the archive will be made available to the public, from fans to school children and researchers, through the creation of The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at V&A East Storehouse, in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The acquisition and creation of The Centre has been made possible thanks to the David Bowie Estate and a generous donation of £10m from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group. Major gift and donation to help @V_and_A secure David Bowie’s archive for the nation: Over 80,000 items spanning six decades of the cultural icon’s career to be made available to the public for the first time. A spokesperson from the David Bowie Estate, said: “With David’s life’s work becoming part of the UK’s national collections, he takes his rightful place amongst many other cultural icons and artistic geniuses.
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