You can now stand inside Trajan’s Column

Ever since it was built in 1873, there’s been a tantalizing door inside the V&A Museum that normally locked, and only very occasionally opened — but now is open all the time.This is the door at the base of Trajan’s Column, a plaster cast replica of the original that still stands in Rome. The 30 metre high column was built to commemorate Emperor Trajan’s two successful campaigns against the Dacians in AD 101 – 2 and 105 – 6. It is thought to have been desig