In 2023, the museum announced its acquisition of the 90,000 items in the archive. It also revealed plans to establish a David Bowie Centre in which to keep and display them. In the museum’s discreet phrasing, the venture was made possible “through the generosity of the David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group”. (Warner Music, which owns the rights to Bowie’s recorded music catalogue, and the charitable foundation set up by Leonard Blavatnik, the business tycoon whose company owns most of Warner, donated £10mn.)
The V&A’s Bowie Centre is a Thoroughly Bowie-esque Act of Reinvention
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