Room 123: Celebration & Commemoration
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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Quilts: 1700 - 2010 Commemorative Panel
Commemorative panel printed from an original textile piece by Natasha Kerr.
Buy nowEvent - Norfolk House Music Room Concert
Fri 01 October 2010–Fri 13 July 2012
PERFORMANCE: 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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