AOC reveals Museum of Childhood interiors plans

The Town Square view of AOC Architecture's interior redesign of the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green

Source: AOC

Practice’s proposals deliver explosion of colour for V&A’s grade II* east London outpost

AOC Architecture has unveiled its proposals for “reimagining” the interiors of the V&A’s Museum of Childhood as part of a £13m upgrade package.

Its plans deliver an explosion of colour to the Bethnal Green institution, which the practice said was the result of bringing together a “palette of found colours”.

AOC, which is based less than a mile away from the museum, said photomicrographic analysis of the building’s ironwork – relocated to east London from the V&A’s main site in the early 1870s – showed it had had 30 paint schemes over the years.

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