Harry Winston signs on as official sponsor for Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
Harry Winston, Inc. is an American luxury jeweler and producer of Swiss timepieces. Named after its famous founder, the jeweler Harry Winston, the company is headquartered in New York. Harry Winston is owned by Toronto-based Harry Winston Diamond Corporation, which holds a 40% interest in the Diavik Diamond Mine, located in Canada's Northwest Territories. Harry Winston, Inc. has retail locations (called "salons") in more than twenty cities worldwide, including New York, Beverly Hills, Paris, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Singapore.
About Property:
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to cover 12.5 acres and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.