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Teachers' resource: Jewellery & adornment
This teachers' resource shows how the V&A's jewellery collection can be used to support learning in Religious Education, Art & Design, History and English.
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Teachers' resource: Using the dress collection
This resource aims to help secondary school teachers of Art, Textiles and Technology use the V&A’s collections of dress to support National Curriculum, GCSE and A-level top…
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Teachers' resource: Drawing in museums
This resource offers teachers advice, ideas and information for the effective use of drawing in a museum.
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Jewellery at the V&A
Historic highlights include jewelled pendants given by Queen Elizabeth I to her courtiers, and diamonds worn by Catherine the Great of Russia. The age of Napoleon is repres…
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A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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Traditional Jewellery: In Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hardback)
Although less well-known today, European jewellery - jewellery worn with traditional or national costume - was highly fashionable in nineteenth-centur…
Buy nowEvent - European Traditional Jewellery
Wed 12 June 2013 13:00
LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Join Jane Perry, visiting scholar at the V&A and author of 'Traditional Jewellery in Nineteenth-century Europe', for an insight into traditional jewellery.
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