Victorian

Renovation work on the museum, which is housed in a grand Victorian dock office building, started in 2021 as part of a £27.5m project to highlight the city's maritime heritage.

Victorian audiences were repelled by Henrik Ibsen’s fatally attractive newlywed who appears to have it all — the fancy house, the doting husband — only to be violently bored.

“That’s when we learned there were places like the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.”

London's Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japanese temple roof suspended above the ring.

But London’s mix of Medieval alleyways, Victorian terraces and modern roundabouts are set to pose a new challenge.