Ove Arup Show - Full size gerbette from the Pompidou Center in Paris.

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Ove Arup Show - fine wire structure above the show, hanging from a Victorian skylight

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The Victoria & Albert museum has a full-size plaster reproduction of Michelangelo's David, cast directly off the marble original in 1857.

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This plaster cast of Michelangelo's David was a gift to Queen Victoria from Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Because she had nowhere to put it, she gave it to the new South Kensington museum, which was later re-named the Victoria & Albert museum.

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The great thing about having this reproduction of David in this gallery in the V&A is that you can see the sculpture from varying heights.

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