This month a museum within a museum opens in London. The Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries, five years in the planning, will welcome their first visitors on November 22. The galleries display all aspects of British design from 1500, when Henry VII was king, to 1900, when Queen Victoria reigned. From opening day onwards there will no longer be an admission charge to the entire Victoria and Albert Museum.
The last major overhaul of the British collection was undertaken ...