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The V&A is the museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book art, Asian art and..
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On Tuesday 19 March we hosted our 2023 – 24 V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge Pitching and Awards Day. What an incredible day it was! The top 10 teams travelled from across the country to the V&A South Kensington, where they took part in creative workshops with artists and designers, saw their work on display, and stood up in front of a full auditorium to showcase their brilliant design ideas to a panel of industry judges. We had four inspiring industry judges on the panel for this year’s Challenge headed up by Dr Helen Charman, Director of Young V&A, Learning...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum
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As part of my research into religious objects for V&A East Storehouse, which will open in 2024 in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, I have been investigating religious objects in the collection from around the...
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What is ‘Britishness’? Depending on the era, the person and their relationship with the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, the response to this question will always be different. But throughout the ages,...
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1w ago
Explore the shortlisted entries for the 2024 V&A Illustration Awards.
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2w ago
For the display Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary, I completed research on the collection and archive of this fascinating collector and curator. A defining feature of her collecting was how broad it was – not...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum
2w ago
THM/636/1/116 Royal Ballet – Swan Lake The Theatre and Performance Archive holds a large number of photographic collections, containing thousands of prints and negatives. But in more recent years, as technology has moved on, we...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum
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I blogged back in December about our (then) upcoming Monday talk sessions. These have been held for the last six weeks and have been a great success. In the hope of tempting even more of you to come and visit us, I want to share the treasures that the Library team have chosen to share with us so far. Richard Epsley, our Chief Librarian and Elizabeth James kicked things off for us at the start of January. Richard chose
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If you’ve visited the National Art Library (NAL) over the last year, you may have spoken to one of four apprentices. Since October 2022 we’ve hosted the latest cohort of a series of apprentices, working...
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Are you interested in a career in museums? V&A East Administrator Jasmine breaks down how she landed her role and shares her top early-careers jobs resources.
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The Karun Thakar Fund offers one-time Project Grants of up to £5000 (£10,000 in exceptional circumstances) in support of projects focused on any aspect of Asian or African textiles or dress.
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