Norfolk House Music Room
The Norfolk House Music Room contains the panelling from the Music Room and the doorways from the Great Room of Nor…
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Wallpaper: nostalgia & reproduction
Accurate modern reproductions of wallpapers forms a key part of the restoration of historic property restoration, w…
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Obituary of Peter Thornton, CBE
Peter Kai Thornton (1925–2007) was one of a number of curators who transformed the collecting, the display and the …
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Room 188a: The Garricks
Room 118a looks at the impact of new eating and drinking habits in the 18th century, the development of trade with the East Indies as well as new skills and techniques in textile printing.
Room 70: Early silver
Silver and gold from the late 15th to the 19th centuries from Britain, Continental Europe and India make up the collection, room 70 houses the early silver collection.
Room 73: Italian Souvenirs
Room 73 houses micromosaics from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection. Micromosaics depicting popular attractions became a sought after and convenient souvenir for the Grand Tourists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
V&A Reading Rooms
Open 7 days a week, the V&A Reading Rooms are the ideal place to meet before or after an exhibition, a great place to pass a pleasant half hour when passing through or spending an evening with friends.
Study Room resource: Constable
These Study Room Resources contain samples of John Constable's sketches and paintings. Ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists, Constable was a major influence on Romantics such as Delacroix, on the painters of the Barbizon School, and ultimately on the Impressionists.
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The Front Room
The Front Room is a unique study by writer/curator Michael McMillan
Buy nowEvent - Home Sweet Home: British Interiors 1500-2000
Wed 16 January 2013 14:00
SHORT COURSE: Discover the social, architectural and artistic history of the British home, from Tudor times to the present day.
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