A museumful of secrets: Q&A with the V&A’s Vicky Broackes
The Victoria and Albert's senior curator talks bringing the live experience to a museum and the genesis of David Bowie Is, the fastest-selling exhibition in V&A history
Feature By | 9 January 2018
Victoria Broackes is senior curator for the department of theatre and performance at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She is curator of Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains; co-curator of You Say You Want a Revolution?
Records and Rebels 1966–1970; and in 2013 co-curated David Bowie Is – the fastest-selling exhibition in the museum’s history, which is still touring the world and has to date been seen by nearly two million people.
Here, Broackes (pictured) tells IQ about the…
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