The V&A has come under fire for banning sketching in some areas of the museum.
The decision was made to ban artists and their sketchbooks due to "loan restrictions" on some of its most popular temporary exhibitions.
Signs warn visitors there is to be "no photography or sketching" at the entrance to museum's latest exhibition Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, which charts the history of undergarments from the 18th century to the present day.
However, the move has not gone down well amongst art fans.
On Twitter, Susanna Round wrote: "This is shocking. Drawing is an essential mode of looking. @v_and_a should support this engagement, even if its inconvenient."
While Rachel Barbaresi said: "This is so surprising and disappointing.".
And Rob Fiehn posted: "Is this a late April Fools? How has any artist learnt from past other than through study and facsimile?"
Stuart Petch added: "Is that a joke? an art piece? Ban sketching? Surely not? Losing their way if art can't be engaged with."
The V&A has previously banned sketching in its exhibitions to ease crowd control, including the blockbusting 2013 David Bowie temporary exhibition.
The museum still allows sketching in all of its permanent collections.
Emmajane Avery, Director of Learning and Visitor Experience at the V&A said: "The V&A has always actively encouraged sketching, and always will, and it is one of the great joys of visiting the museum to stumble across people drawing objects from the collection in our seven miles of permanent galleries.
"We also allow sketching in temporary exhibitions where loan conditions allow - as was the case in Constable and Fabric of India, and is the case now in the current Paul Strand show.
"On occasion, lender restrictions mean sketching is not permitted, but we do what we can to keep this to a minimum."
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