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COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES

Intercultural Programme

The Serta Gersa troupe

The Serta Gersa troupe (click image for larger version)

The V&A celebrates the wealth of different cultures in the collections through a range of free events and activities. These include festivals, performances, community projects, talks and tours, many of which are developed in partnership with other cultural organisations and in consultation with people from diverse backgrounds.

Intercultural tours

The Victoria and Albert Museum has extensive collections from South Asia and the Far East as well as beautiful recently designed galleries on Middle Eastern art and of Sacred Silver and Stained Glass.  These galleries are rich with objects associated with many of the world's religions including: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam as well as Christianity and Judaism.

 To increase awareness of its collections the museum is now offering specialised, free tours to supplementary schools, as well as community and educational faith groups. A team of specially trained guides will devise a tour for you or work with you to tailor-make an itinerary. You can choose to concentrate on your own or another faith, look at a specific theme across faiths or just enjoy a selection of objects.

Visits last one hour and are available during V&A opening hours, 10.00-17.45 everyday and Friday until 22.00.

A sacred object tour is a wonderful opportunity to enhance existing instruction programmes, deepen appreciation of faith objects and bring new perspectives. To book a tour for your group (two weeks notice required) please call +44 (0)20 7942 2211or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk

Community Views on Objects in the Collections

From April to September 2006, seven advisory groups were held with different faith community groups.  The aim of these were to consult with the communities that the V&A collections were relevant to and see what reactions the members of the advisory groups had about the items. The participants were asked to select from groups of pictures of V&A objects and prioritise what items struck them most. These could be for personal reasons or how important they were from a cultural or faith point of view, for artistic reasons or whether they still had relevance to their lives today.