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Designing museum activity backpacks for families
Guidance notes for museums and galleries wishing to develop family activities, particularly the use of backpacks.
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UK activity
An overview of national touring exhibitions, loans, collaboration, and financial support.
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Backpacks
Our award-winning backpacks are full of brilliant hands-on activities including jigsaws, stories, puzzles, construction games and things to handle. Backpacks are free to borrow and do not need to be booked.
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About V&A Enterprises
The commercial activities of the V&A are managed by V&A Enterprises Ltd. All of our profits go back to the museum at the end of each year.
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Digital Kids
Come and join us for Digital Kids activities in our state-of-the-art digital studio and get creative with a five minute blast or make your masterpiece in an hour! Let you creativity and imagination run free with our family friendly activities.
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About Family Art Fun
Why the V&A encourages family visits, and provides activities and events that interest and involve adults and children alike.
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Teachers' resource: Textiles
This resource suggests different approaches to using the V&A's textile collections for supporting teaching and learning in Art & Design at Key Stages 2, 3, 4 and 5. Included are classroom based activities and five activities relating a technique of textile production to a project that encourages pupils to use the collections as inspiration for a sustained piece of textile work.
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Teachers' resource: Buddhism: art & design and religious education
This resource suggests different approaches to using the V&A's collection of Buddhist objects for supporting teaching and learning in Religious Education and Art & Design at Key Stage 3. Included are classroom based activities and activities that can be carried out at the museum to engage students in learning about Buddhist art. These could also be adapted for different key stages and subjects, especially History, Citizenship and Literacy.
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Teachers' resource: Maths and Islamic art & design
This resource provides a variety of information and activities that teachers may like to use to explore the Islamic Middle East collections at the V&A. It can be used to support learning in Maths and Art.
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Teachers' resource: Museum conservation
This resource looks at conservation in the museum environment. It contains suggestions for activities that are adaptable for the Science and Design & Technology areas of the curriculum at Key Stages 2 and 3.
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CreateFutures
CreateFutures is the V&A’s access and outreach programme for young people aged 13–21. It aims to enrich young people's lives by collaborating with youth and community groups to organise museum visits and activities that help young people to develop their creative potential and futures.
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Medieval & Renaissance Galleries conservation progress logs
The Medieval & Renaissance Galleries is the largest project that the department has delivered since the British Galleries. The Medieval and Renaissance Galleries Steering Group needed to be assured that progress was not compromised by the numerous other activities that were running concurrently. Mid-way through the project, a way of presenting this information in a readily understandable monthly Conservation progress report had to be devised. These were generated using hours recorded in Microsoft® Excel 2002 ...
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Imagination Station
The Imagination Station is all about creativity and ideas. Visit to have fun exploring the museum and let your imagination run wild!
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Teachers' resource: Exploring Image & Identity in the galleries
This resource includes teachers' notes and five museum activity sheets for students. The teachers' notes are designed as background information on all the objects that are included in five museum trails for students. The objects have been chosen for their links with image, identity, style and symbolism.
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Teachers' resource: Sculpture
This resource introduces teachers to the rich and varied collections of sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The projects include ideas on preparing for a visit, activities to do in the Museum and ways to follow up back at school.
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