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Outfits, musical instruments and other objects on loan from musician Taylor Swift are going on display at London&#x27;s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&amp;A) in a first of a kind exhibition.Titled &quot;Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail&quot; the temporary exhibition is made up of 13 installations dotted across the museum&#x27;s many galleries.&quot;It&#x27;s a journey around the museum,&quot; curator Kate Bailey said.&quot;It follows chapters in Taylor Swift&#x27;s career and we highlight the eras and showcase objects and looks worn by Taylor across the different spaces in the museum,&quot; she said at a preview event on Wednesday (July 24).Bailey and her team were given access to Swift&#x27;s personal archives to pick items for the theatrically staged installations, which are placed in carefully chosen galleries that connect to moments in the 14-time Grammy winner&#x27;s career.Among the items on show are customized cowboy boots worn by a young Swift at the start of her career, the wig and facial hair she sported in &quot;The Man&quot; music video, reproductions of the hand-drawn storyboards for the &quot;Willow&quot; music video and a golden microphone with snake detail used by Swift on the &quot;Reputation&quot; stadium tour.Also on display are the ukulele played by Swift on the &quot;Speak Now&quot; world tour, the cardigan from the &quot;Cardigan&quot; music video and the fisherman cap she wore on the &quot;Red (Taylor&#x27;s Version)&quot; album cover.&quot;It&#x27;s been a really fast-moving project, where I got to select works from the collection,&quot; said Bailey. &quot;I wanted to make sure that we were able to showcase costumes, but also musical instruments, objects that kind of convey her whole career and creativity.&quot;&quot;It&#x27;s been wonderful to borrow those and to see how they could work on display in the museum,&quot; said Bailey.&quot;It&#x27;s a first and it&#x27;s the first time we&#x27;ve done a trail in this way. And it&#x27;s the first time these objects have been seen in the UK. So it&#x27;s incredibly exciting and it&#x27;s free.&quot;Bailey said she didn&#x27;t know what Swift herself thought of the trail.&quot;Drawing down into the songbook, into her sort of creative inspirations, there&#x27;s so many synergies with the V&amp;A and with our collections. Whether it&#x27;s the sort of Victorian inspired look for &#x27;Fortnight&#x27; or, you know, we have multiple kind of references to the poets and all kinds of storytelling. I hope she&#x27;d find inspiration from it, too,&quot; she said.&quot;Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail&quot; is displayed throughout the V&amp;A South Kensington from June 27 to September 8. According to the museum the trail takes 60-90 minutes to complete.(Production: Will Russell, Hanna Rantala)

Outfits, musical instruments and other objects on loan from musician Taylor Swift are going on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in a first of a kind exhibition.

Outfits, musical instruments and other objects on loan from musician Taylor Swift are going on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in a first of a kind exhibition.

Taylor Swift lends personal items to UK's V&A for museum 'journey'

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Taylor Swift lends personal items to UK's V&A for museum 'journey'

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Published Jul 25, 2024 02:01 AM PHT

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Updated Jul 25, 2024 02:38 AM PHT

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