‘Photography for museums is often very clean, crisp, light, and bright. But I wanted to bring that rougher, more authentic feel’ says photographer Vicky Grout. When it came to photographing our new storehouse – now home to a collection of over 250,000 objects, 350,000 books, and 1,000 archives – we decided to approach things differently. How might a photographer like Grout, who came up documenting grime raves, reimagine a 200-year-old pair of slippers or a 4th-century tapestry?
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