Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert museum is a world famous art and design museum. They have exhibitions of film costumes, Princess Diana's dresses, David Bowie, Vivienne Westwood and now Pearls. You can easily spend all day in the museum even just looking at the permanent collections, let alone in the shop which sells great coffee table tomes to accompany the collections and ideas expressed in the museum, as well as jewellery, clothes, cushions, furnishings, fabrics, mugs, stationery and presents. There are gloves, necklaces and children's toys. Brilliantly funny covers for your oyster card (travel card) holder in London riffing on the pearl theme of the late 2013 exhibition and much much more. If you can't get to the museum, then you can shop online too.