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Theatre Museum

Theatre Museum
Theatre Museum

Theatre Museum is an art museum in London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom.

About Theatre Museum

The Theatre Museum in the Covent Garden district of London, England, was the United Kingdom's national museum of the performing arts. It was a branch of the UK's national museum of applied arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum. It opened in 1974 and closed in 2007, being replaced by new galleries at the V&A's main site in South Kensington.

The Theatre Museum told the story of the performing arts in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present. It covered all the live performing arts including drama, dance, opera, musical theatre, circus, puppetry, music hall and live art. It claimed to have the largest collections of documents and artefacts on these subjects in the world.

Theatre Museum by the numbers

Founded
1974
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Artworks shown from Theatre Museum are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.