The Victoria and Albert Museum is among the most important museums in the world. Founded and opened in London, more precisely in Cromwell Road, in 1852, it houses an important collection of applied and minor arts together with masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and painting, with an eye to drawing. The permanent collection has about four and a half million exhibits and is divided into one hundred and forty five galleries for a total area of five hectares. In addition, the Victoria and Albert Museum has the richest collection on Italian Renaissance art after Italy itself. Inside the spaces, you can admire works by Raphael (the tapestries of the Sistine Chapel), Perugino (Madonna di Loreto), Donatello (Delivery of the keys, Madonna Chellini, Lamentation of Christ), Bernini (Neptune and Triton), Canova ( Theseus on the Minotaur and The Three Graces) and Michelangelo (Sketch for the Young Slave). The link with Italy continues inside the Cast Courts, that is the rooms of the museum in which the casts of some of the most important Italian architectural works are reproduced such as the Porta Magna of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna by Jacopo della Quercia . Since 2001, admission to the museum is free.