Room 123: Celebration & Commemoration

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Enamelled earthenware plate depicting Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) by Thomas Kirkby for Minton & Co., England, c.1855.
Museum no. 3340-1856

  

Room 123 includes an interesting display of commemorative items made for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. Events of her life were recorded in everything from sculpture to song-sheets, paintings to pottery. Also in this room  are displays on the new interest in antique collecting, the development of legal protection for new designs as well as the new technologies involved.

Room 123 is on Level 4 of the V&A South Kensington.

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Objects you can find in this gallery:

British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

31 March–12 August 2012

Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.

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Quilts: 1700 - 2010 Commemorative Panel

Quilts: 1700 - 2010 Commemorative Panel

Commemorative panel printed from an original textile piece by Natasha Kerr.

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Event - Norfolk House Music Room Concert

Fri 01 October 2010–Fri 13 July 2012

LIVE MUSIC: Free concerts by musicians from the Royal College of Music are performed on selected Friday evenings in the beautiful setting of the Norfolk House Music Room, from 18.30 – 19.30.

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