ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

Things To Do

 

Blogs

• Sue Lawty: Artist in Residence in Textiles
• Stuart Frost: Medieval and Renaissance
• Siân Bowen: Artist in Residence in Drawing
• Diane Lees: Museum of Childhood Director's Blog
• Helen Scalway: Moving Patterns

 

Competitions

Competitions to Enter

• China Design Now: Win a Trip to China!

Results of Previous Competitions

• Lee Miller: Win an Olympus digital SLR camera
• The Golden Age of Couture: Win a Harvey Nichols 'sweet things' hamper
• For Young People: Shoe design to be judged by top British Designer Jimmy Choo
• V&A Illustration Awards: Premier awards for book and editorial illustration in the UK

 

Design

• Arts & Crafts: Design a Tile
• Thomas Hope: Design a Room
• Modernism: Create your own Poster
• Westwood: Create a Tartan
• Design a Textile
• Create a Tag
• Design a Renaissance Room
• Design a Coat of Arms 
• Shamiana: Create a Tent Design

Previous Contributions (only available to view)

• Wish.you.were.here
• Going Graphic

 

Download

• Chihuly: Desktop Wallpaper
• Tudor Screensavers

 

Explore

• Picnic Tile Panel
• Explore a Painting: The More Family Portrait
• Explore a Painting: The Opening of the Great Exhibtion
• Understanding Styles
• Families Online: Collector's Corner
• Wheel of Rebirth
• Islamic Middle East Map
• Get Closer to Kylie

 

Make

• Make a Couture Inspired Dress
• World Beach Project
• Kylie Paper Doll
• Design a Renaissance Room
• Biribissi: Renaissance Board Game
• Art Deco: Make an Egyptian head-dress
• Make Your Own Toy Circus
• Make Your Own Toy Theatre
• Silhouette Pictures
• Jumping Jacks
• Thaumatrope
• Paper Dolls
• Tumbling Acrobat
• Dolls Room
• Cup & Ball Game
• Gothic: Make a Medieval Book
• Make a Baroque Hat
• Make an Origami House

 

Play Games

• Jewellery & Accessories Kaleidoscope
• Dressing The Part
• Kaleidoscope
• Canal Challenge
• Peek-a-Boo at the V&A
• Peek-a-Boo at the Museum of Childhood
• Tudor Joust
• Build a Toy
• Jigsaw
• Slider
• Wordsearch
• Encounters: Influences
• Encounters: Word Search
• Families Online: Games gallery

 

Quizzes

• Architecture Quiz
• Art Deco Quiz
• Christopher Dresser Quiz
• Circus Quiz
• Encounters Quiz
• Gothic Quiz
• Music Hall Quiz
• Musicals Quiz
• Pantomime Quiz
• Vivienne Westwood Quiz
• Renaissance Mystery Object Quiz

 

Send a Card

• Golden Age of Couture E-postcard
• Museum of Childhood Birthday Cards
• Send a Birthday Book
• Art Deco E-postcard
• Celebration E-cards
• Chihuly: Send an E-postcard
• Gothic E-postcard
• Touch Me E-postcard
• Spectres E-postcard
• Vivienne Westwood E-postcard
• Ossie Clark E-postcard

 

Share

• Your Elegant Dress
• Your Sixties Memories
• Kylie: Is there a diva in you?
• Kylie: Your Say
• Essex Writing
• Essex Images
• Learning to Knit
• Share Your Knitting
• What is Craft to You?
• Your First Visit to the V&A
• Your Che
• Style Memories: Black British Style
• Westwood: Vivienne & You
• Your Ossie Clark Memories
• Toys on Holiday
• Imaginary Friends
• My East End Childhood
• Share a Story
• Share Your Pockets
• Renaissance Recipes
• Sikh: Write a Story
• Visitors' Voices
• Every Object Tells a Story

Previous Contributions (only available to view)

 

Trail

• Objects of Beauty
• V&A Building Trail
• Exhibition Road Trail
• Architecture Object Trail
• Architectural Fragments trail
• Paul de Lamerie silver trail: PDF file
• Paul de Lamerie silver trail: Word file