Us 🤝 Glass It’s the International Year of Glass - celebrate this boundary breaking material with us. We’ve got quite the history together. Learn it’s makers, markets and methods with online and in-person courses from the V&A Academy. Link in bio to book. A temporary ‘Crystal Palace’, home to the Great Exhibition of 1851, was the origin of the V&A. At a gargantuan 564 metres long, how many panels of glass do you think the Crystal Palace was made from? 👇 📸 1. Salvador Ysart with Mrs Moncrieff, ‘Monart’, 1924-1939 2. John Absolon, ‘General View, Crystal Palace’, 1851 3. Dawn Bendick, ‘Time Rock XIII’, 2022 4. Unknown, Panel, 1320-1324