News from the Learning Department

Twentieth Anniversary of the Late Medieval to Early Renaissance Year Course

By Paula Nuttall, Director of Late Medieval to Early Renaissance Year Course.   The Late Medieval to Early Renaissance Year Course is marking its 20th anniversary in 2012-13.  It’s the longest running of the V&A’s six Year Courses, each of which runs one day of the week during term-time, for a full academic year. Each day consists of three lectures on related themes, and...
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Hunting Tapestry

Designing and Developing Activity Areas in the Europe 1600 - 1800 Galleries

By Lucy Trench, Lead Educator for the Europe 1600–1800 galleries.   These galleries, due to open in December 2014, are the next big gallery development after Medieval & Renaissance. When I took on the role of educator, I wondered how we could refresh our usual package of gallery interpretation and also show some of the social and intellectual changes that took place between 1600...
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Endymion Cabinet
Digital design workshop
The Learning Department programmes events, activities, courses and projects to inspire creativity in all of our audiences. We also manage gallery interpretation, residency programmes and evaluation.