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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Malcolm Baker

Letter: Sir Michael Hopkins obituary

Sir Michael Hopkins in 2014.
Sir Michael Hopkins in 2014. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

In the 1980s Sir Michael Hopkins and his wife and colleague Patty played a crucial role in clarifying the confused interior spaces of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Brought in by the director, Sir Roy Strong, they collaborated with a team of curators (of whom I was one) to map out what was to become the basis for the re-configuration of the V&A’s gallery displays and the re-interpretation of its collections.

This resulted in the museum’s masterplan and the creation of series such as the British galleries, the Medieval and Renaissance galleries, and the sequences of Materials and Techniques galleries, helping to give the V&A its current appearance.

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