CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & DISPLAYS
Touring Exhibitions
Below is a list of V&A touring Exhibitions:
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International Touring Exhibitions Googlemap
View a Google Map highlighting the international spread of the V&A's travelling exhibitions past, present and future.
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A Century of Olympic Posters
Capital Museum, Beijing , 15 January - 28 February 2008
Liaoning Museum, Shenyang, 12 March - 27 April 2008
V&A Museum of Childhood, 17 May - 7 September 2008
Ironbridge Gorge Museum, 26 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
Southampton City Art Gallery, 27 March - 31 May 2009
Shipley Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear, 13 June - 23 August 2009
This vibrant new exhibition explores the fascinating representation of the Olympic Games through the intensely visual medium of the poster. -
China Design Now
Cincinnati Art Museum, 18 October 2008 - 11 January 2009
Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, 10 October 2009 - 17 January 2010The exhibition captures a dynamic phase as China opened up to global influences, and looks at developments in three rapidly expanding cities - Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Displaying the work of Chinese and international designers, it features architecture, fashion, youth culture and graphics as well as film, photography, product and furniture design and digital media.
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Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970
MART, Rovereto, 28 March - 26 July 2009
National Art Gallery, Vilnius, 2 October - 6 December 2009
This exhibition explores the extraordinary international developments in modern art, design, architecture and film during the Cold War. It examines late modernism in a wide international context, uniting painting and sculpture with architecture, design, film, fashion and other popular media.
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The Golden Age of Couture
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, 7 December 2008 - 22 March 2009
Hong Kong Heritage Museum. 30 May - 28 September 2009
Musée National des beaux arts du Québec, 4 February - 24 April 2010
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 18 June 2010 - 12 September 2010This glamorous exhibition celebrates Parisian and British couture between 1947-1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as the 'Golden Age' of fashion.
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Fashion V Sport
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 13 February - 31 May 2009
The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry, 13 February - 3 May 2010This exhibition explores the relationship between fashion and sport: examining contemporary developments in both industries in themes such as the link to fame, and the challenge of designing for physical movement, through objects that range from designer outfits to customised trainers.
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Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists: Paintings and Drawings from the V&A 1790-1927
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, 8 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Rajasthan, 9 March - 8 May 2009
National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, 24 October - 6 December 2009
Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, 22 December 2009 - 31 January 2010
Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, 14 February - 28 March 2010
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru, 9 April - 23 May 2010This exhibition shows 94 works drawn from the V&A's collection by 20 Western artists depicting the architecture, landscape and people of India. Following a highly successful tour to two venues in India in 2008/09, the exhibition will tour to three further venues in 2009/10. The exhibition is supported by the World Collections Programme.
More on Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists: Paintings and Drawings from the V&A 1790-1927
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Out of the Ordinary
Shipley Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear, 21 March - 1 June 2008
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, 13 December 2008 - 1 March 2009
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 25 June - 20 September 2009
Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, Lincolnshire, 20 November 2009 - 10 January 2010
Out of the Ordinary brings together a group of international artists who place craft at the heart of their practice, transforming everyday subjects and materials into works that are truly extraordinary.