The Metalwork collection contains over 45,000 examples of decorative metalwork, silver and jewellery ranging in date from the Bronze Age to the present day. It includes the national collection of English silver, an outstandingly comprehensive jewellery gallery, and collections of ironwork, continental silver, arms and armour, medieval champlevé and late 19th-century enamels, brasswork, pewter and medieval metalwork of international importance.
Beautifully Bitten: Acid-etched Metal in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
4 July 2010 – 30 June 2013. This small display brings together a selection of 11 metalwork objects etched with acid and includes weapons, locks and tools.
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Metalwork in the Archive of Art & Design
The Archive of Art and Design's holdings for metalwork offer an insight into its use in an everyday setting. There are presentation drawings of hand-forged wrought iron gat…
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Metalwork Decoration Techniques
Metalworking decoration techniques explained with examples from the V&A's collection.
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Caring for Your Metal Objects
How to care for your metal objects, from identifying the metals and other materials, spotting immitations, identifying common problems and how to clean them.
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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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Japanese Art and Design (New Edition)
The V&A's greatest treasures from the Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art shine in this newly updated overview of Japanese art from the last four cent…
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Wed 15 January 2014 10:30
8 WEEK SHORT COURSE: Discover more about the Byzantine Empire, ruled from its capital, Constantinople (present day
Istanbul) for over a thousand years, from its foundation by the Emperor Constantine in 330, until its fall to the Ottomans in 1453.
