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New Acquisition: A Painting of the Jain Pilgrimage Site at Shatrunjaya Hill

By Nick Barnard, Curator, South and South East Asia. The V&A has recently acquired a large and splendid painting of Shatrunjaya Hill in Gujarat, one of the holiest Jain sites. Thousands of pilgrims climb up to the temples on top of the hills by a path with over 3,000 steps. Today (28 November 2012) is Kartik Purnima, the special day when these paintings are hung up and venerated in Jain...
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A Painting of the Jain Pilgrimage Site at Shatrunjaya Hill

Martin Roth's keynote speech at Museums Association conference, Edinburgh 2012

On Friday 9 November I was invited to give the keynote speech at the Museums Association conference. Here is that speech in full for you to read... It’s always a pleasure to come to Edinburgh. And it is a double pleasure to be invited here to meet so many of my friends in the Museums Association. I want to use this opportunity, if I may, to reflect on the role of museums in a time of...
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Martin Roth, Director of the V&A

Scheduled maintenance affecting web services - Friday 2 November and Sunday 4 November

Advanced notice of temporary website disruption On Friday 2 November and Sunday 4 November 2012, the Museum will be undertaking essential work to update technical infrastructure in the building. This will affect access to some services that are delivered on the web. On Sunday this work is scheduled to start at 17.30 and be completed by approximately 9.00 on Monday 5 November. The main website...
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Random War, print, Charles Csuri, 1967. Museum no. CIRC.775-1969
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