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Museum Conservation
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Teachers' resource about conservation in the museum environment, relating to Science and Design & Technology
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Glass
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A resource for primary and secondary teachers showing how the Glass Gallery can be used to support Art & Design, Design & Technology and History
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Jewellery & Adornment
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This resource shows how primary and secondary school teachers can use the V&A's+T26 collection of jewellery to support teaching and learning in RE, Art & Design, History and English
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Plant Motifs
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Information and ideas for Art & Design and Design & Technology teachers about plant motifs in textiles from Tudor England, Mughal India and Qing China
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Moving Toys (MoC)
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Suggestions for preparing for and extending the 'Moving Toys' Museum of Childhood teaching session about yoyo's, spinning tops and other traditional toys
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Pop Ups & Puppets (MoC)
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Suggestions for preparing for and extending the 'Pop Ups and Puppets' Museum of Childhood teaching session about puppets
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Contemporary Photography
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A selection of contemporary photographs with teaching notes
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Architects' Drawings & Ideas
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A range of different types of architects' drawings used to express their ideas, with teaching notes
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Processes and Techniques of Photography
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A selection of photographs illustrating the main 19th- and 20th-century processes with teaching notes
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Graphics & Advertising
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A selection of iconic advertisements with teaching notes
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Print-making Techniques
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A selection of relief, stencil and intaglio prints with teaching notes
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Pattern
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Wallpaper and textile patterns from 1868 to 1978, with teaching notes
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Book Illustration
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A selection of material showing the development of book illustration, with teaching notes
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Make a Couture Inspired Dress
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Dress pattern inspired by a 1950s dress in the V&A collection
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Arts & Crafts: Design a Tile
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Online design activity with a cult following
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Modernism: Create a Poster
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Online design activity based on Modernist posters
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Westwood: Create a Tartan
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Online design activity inspired by Vivienne Westwood's use of tartan
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Design a Textile
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Online design activity inspired by 18th-century Spitalfields silks
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Design a Coat of Arms
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Online design activity
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Design a Renaissance Room
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Online 'drag and drop' activity
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Make Your Own Toy Circus
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Make Your Own Toy Theatre
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Make an Egyptian Head-Dress (Art Deco site)
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Jumping Jacks
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Make a cardboard figure with moving arms and legs - activity to print out and do at home or in the classroom
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Paper Dolls
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Silhouette Pictures (MoC)
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Paper-based activity to do at home or in the classroom
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Thaumatrope (MoC)
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Craft activity to do at home or in the classroom
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Make a Medieval Book
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Print and do art activity for home or classroom
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Make a Tumbling Acrobat (MoC)
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Make a Dolls Room (MoC)
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Cup and Ball Game (MoC)
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Craft activity to do at home or in the classroom
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Block-printed wallpaper
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Video about how a block-printed wallpaper by William Morris was made
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Make an Origami House
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Design Your Own Space Bedroom (MoC)
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Online design activity
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Space Age Activities (MoC)
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Build Your Own Classroom (MoC)
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Download and cut out a 19th-century French classroom
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Build Your Own Victorian Village (MoC)
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Build a Toy (MoC)
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Interactive game - design a toy then get it safely through the maze to the toy box
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Canal Challenge
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Architectural Style quiz
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Interactive quiz about architectural styles
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Vivienne Westwood quiz
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Interactive quiz about Vivienne Westwood
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V&A Building trail
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A trail about the V&A building and its history to print out and bring to the Museum
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Architecture Objects trail
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A trail featuring V&A objects designed by architects to print out and bring with you on a visit
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Architectural Fragments trail
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A trail about architectural fragments on display in the V&A to print out and bring with you on a visit
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Sian Bowen blog
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Blog by artist in residence Sian Bowen who uses drawing as her medium
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Stuart Frost blog
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Blog by Education Officer Stuart Frost who is working on the Medieval and Renaissance gallery project
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Sue Lawty blog
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Blog by artist in residence Sue Lawty who works in textiles and site-specific sculpture, including the World Beach Project
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Helen Scalway blog Moving Patterns
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Blog by Helen Scalway who is artist in residence on a project about how textile patterns have been transmitted between South Asia and Britain since the 17th century
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Sackler Centre Diary
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Online diary by members of the Sackler Centre for arts education project team
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MoC Diary
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Online diary by Museum of Childhood staff and others who worked on the redevelopment of the Museum
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Architectural Drawings Series
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In this series of 18 videos Michael Snodin, former Head of Design at the V&A, talks about a selection of architectural drawings from the V&A and RIBA drawings collections
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Virtual tour of the Phaeno Science Centre
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Virtual reality tour of the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, Germany, designed by Zaha Hadid
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James 'Athenian' Stuart - Spencer House
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A video about Spencer House, an 18th-century London town-house
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Computer-Aided Design for 30 St Mary Axe
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A video showing how computer-aided design was used to develop London's 'Gherkin' (30 St Mary Axe)
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An enamel box
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Video showing how a decorative enamel box is made
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Art, design and empire
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Video about the effect the British empire has had on art and design
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The Adam Interior
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Video about an interior design scheme by Robert Adam at Saltram House in Devon
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The Crystal Palace
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Animation showing how the Crystal Palace that housed the Great Exhibition of 1851 was constructed
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Gilbert Bayes: Lost Wax Bronze Casting
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A video explaining the complex process of lost wax bronze casting
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Gilbert Bayes: Painted Wood Sculpture
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A video showing how a painted wood sculpture would have been made
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Oriental Carpets (x11)
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In this series of videos, you can learn all about oriental carpets in the company of Jennifer Wearden, former V&A Textile Curator
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Bluewater Shopping Centre
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An audio about Bluewater shopping centre in Kent by the architect and one of the shop managers
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Stockley Park Office Complex
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The architect and one of the people who works in the building talk about the Stockley Park office complex
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Traditional Japanese House
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An architect and a critic talk about a traditional Japanese house
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Early 17th Century Costume
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Audio of theatre designer Jenny Tiramani discussing early 17th century costume
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The Henrietta Street Room
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The interior designer David Mlinaric discusses the 18th-century Henrietta Street Room
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Robert Adam & William Chambers
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Audio about the rivalry of architects Robert Adam and William Chambers based on their writings
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Lee Priory
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Audio of the 18th-century writer and collector Horace Walpole commenting on Lee Priory
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Decoration of Churches
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Audio of 19th-century views on the decoration of churches
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Christopher Dresser
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The designer Tom Dixon discusses Christopher Dresser
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William Morris
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Audio about the views of different generations on a cabinet by William Morris
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RIBA/V&A Online Workshops
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Six online workshops based on images and material drawn from the RIBA and V&A, exploring six different themes in architecture: Design in process; Drawing out meaning; Education in a modern world; Picturing London; Roaming Rome; and Urban adventures.
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