By supporting the V&A through donations, Membership or volunteering, you are helping make the V&A a world-class centre of excellence in art and design. Support from members of the public, companies and charitable organisations helps us to build and refurbish galleries, curate world-class exhibitions, improve facilities, conserve and study the collection, buy objects and develop our learning programme.
Director's Circle
Annual support from the Director's Circle ensures that we can meet our most urgent needs and that we have the resources to keep the V&A at the forefront of the world's muse…
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Voluntary & Work Experience Placements
At the Victoria and Albert Museum, volunteers assist in many activities and departments. They work on the Information desks, as tour guides, as escorts for people with disa…
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Donations of objects and in-kind support
The V&A is very grateful to those who give works of art and other important objects to add to our collection.
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American Friends of the V&A and international supporters
The V&A has a busy international programme with exhibitions and loans, cultural partnerships, academic exchanges, skills sharing and trading in many countries around the wo…
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FuturePlan: how to support development projects
Find out how you can help support FuturePlan projects to transform the V&A. We would be delighted to discuss how you can help make the next phase of FuturePlan possible.
Read articleA 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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Chinese Textiles

A stunning title in the popular V&A Far Eastern series. Each Chinese textile tells a story and this book tells many stories of Chinese life and le…
Buy nowEvent - Emerging Empires: England and Muscovy in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Fri 14 June 2013–Sat 15 June 2013

CONFERENCE: Join us for an international conference bringing together scholars, curators and Historians to debate the diplomatic and trade relations between England and Muscovy.
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