Teachers' resource: Explore design processes through the V&A and RIBA Architecture collections
This resource explains the design processes used in architecture and shows how they can inspire and facilitate other design projects. It draws on the V&A collections and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) archive of architectural drawings, manuscripts and models.
Teachers' resource: Exploring Image & Identity through posters and photographs
This resource contains information and images from the Photography collection and from an exhibition about Bollywood film posters that relate to issues of image and identity.
Teachers' resource: Voyage through the Islamic Middle East
This teachers' resource shows how you can use the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the V&A to explore Islamic art and design with your class.
Teachers' resource: Constable
This resource introduces teachers to the V&A's collection of works by John Constable, providing a unique opportunity to look at the artistic process from sketch through to finished work.
Study Room resource: architecture & exploring skylines
This resource contains a selection of architects' drawings from the V&A's and RIBA's Architecture collections that explore iconic buildings and skylines produced in the late 1600s to 1980s. They demonstrate a range of approaches to recording, depicting and imagining cityscapes using different drawing techniques.
Donate to the Stained Glass Appeal
We are currently working on an exciting project to conserve and re-install the original stained glass on the landings of the Manfred and Lydia Gorvy Lecture Theatre. We need your help to raise £75,000 to bring these historical features back to their former glory for us all to enjoy.
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The Story of Suleyman: Celebrity Elephants and Other Exotica in Renaissance Portugal
The incredible story of a brave, small elephant, Suleyman, and his decade-long passage by land and sea from Asia and across Europe.
Buy nowEvent - Arts of Asia 11/12
Mon 12 September 2011–Mon 16 July 2012
COURSE: Discover the Arts of Asia, 1500–1900 in this popular Year Course focusing on the rich diversity of artistic traditions found within the vast territories of the Islamic Middle East, South Asia and China. You can book the full course, or select individual terms or days. Mondays, 12 September 2011 – 16 July 2012 (over 3 terms)
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