V&A to open wine bar

V&A wine bar will invite visitors to sip wine whilst browsing for books

The Victoria & Albert Museum is planning to open a wine bar and bookshop near South Kensington Tube station, with design by David Collins Studio.

The V&A’s commercial and retail arm V&A Enterprises is understood to be responsible for running the project, which will allow customers to drink wine whilst browsing for books

V&A Reading Rooms will be located in the shopping area on Exhibition Road, which leads up to the museum from the tube station. The shop will feature an awning with outside tables and chairs, an indoor bar displaying bottles of wine, Anglepoise lighting and a lavender-blue palette for walls and fixtures.

The retail format of wine bar combined with bookshop is unfamiliar in London, but is more common in Paris. As part of the museum’s major redevelopment scheme.