London's David Bowie Centre to open with 200 treasures from a 90,000-item archive

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London's David Bowie Centre to open with 200 treasures from a 90,000-item archive  From handwritten lyrics to iconic costumes and unrealised projects, London’s V&A East is inviting visitors to step inside Bowie’s restless, shape-shifting world.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/12/londons-david-bowie-centre-to-open-with-200-treasures-from-a-90000-item-archive  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00The archive is an incredible treasure trove that spans his 50-year career so for us what was really

00:27exciting in particular was the comprehensiveness it's huge it's covering his 50-year career but

00:33also the depth of it from you know sketches that he's done handwritten lyrics costumes instruments

00:40even fan art merchandise props set models everything you could possibly associate with

00:47Bowie he had assembled he had collected and he'd been an active archivist as well in his own collection

00:57we have 200 objects on displays and as there are over 90,000 objects to choose from so whittling

01:19down that selection was one of the biggest intellectual and curatorial challenges of my life certainly I am

01:26excited to especially with the thematic displays which will rotate every six months we'll be able

01:30to pull out more objects and view but especially with someone like David Bowie who's there's just

01:35such a massive amount to choose from not only in volume of material but periods of work genres you

01:40know creative personas even projects that we didn't know that he was working on until we got our hands

01:46on the archive

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