Room 94: Tapestries
Room 94 is dominated by three of the Hunting Tapestries once owned by the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Made between 1425…
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Room 58b: Heraldry & Sheldon Tapestries
Room 58b contains a display on heraldry in the 16th century as well as a selection of Sheldon tapestries. William S…
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Room 52b: Spitalfields Silks & Taking Tea
This room has an interesting combination of objects relating to tea-drinking in the mid 17th century as well as the…
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Room 54: Baroque, Palladianism and Propaganda
Room 54 reflects the flourishing of skills such as decorative painting, carving, metalwork and upholstery in the ex…
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Room 10a: Noble Living 1350–1500
The Françoise and Georges Selz Gallery is devoted to luxury goods found in the households of rich nobles and wealty…
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Room 41: South Asia
The Nehru Gallery displays jewellery, textiles, furniture, arms and armour, metalwork and paintings of the Mughal a…
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Room 42: Islamic Art
The Jameel Gallery houses over 400 objects, including ceramics, textiles, carpets, metalwork, glass and woodwork, w…
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Room 44: China
The T. T. Tsui Gallery houses one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art dating from 30…
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Room 45: Japan
Room 45 contains a wide range of treasures from Japan including swords and armour, netsuke (small carvings), wood-b…
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Room 47g: Korea
The Samsung Gallery displays objects made between 500 and 2000 AD which reflect the love of natural forms that perv…
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Room 47f: Chinese Export Art
All the items on display in this room were made in China and brought to the West by merchants who went there to buy…
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Room 74: 20th century, internationalism & modernism
This room is divided into three bays. The first includes objects made between 1900 and 1920, a time when appropriat…
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Room 52: Portraiture, Public Entertainment and Chinoiserie
The George Levy Gallery looks at the effect public entertainment areas, such as the Spring Gardens in Vauxhall, had…
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Room 57: The Great Bed of Ware
he enormous, three-metre-wide, Great Bed of Ware dominates Room 57. Probably built for an inn at Ware, Hertfordshir…
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Room 58: Renaissance Style
Henry VIII, a great patron of the arts, spent lavishly on furnishings, paintings, tapestries and silver. Examples o…
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Room 118: Neo-classicism in Britain
This Wolfson Gallery looks at how Neo-classicism transformed architecture and design in Britain in the second half …
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Room 120: Beckford, Hope & Regency Classicism
The Wolfson Galleries feature several personalities who influenced art and design in the early 19th century. Among …
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Room 122: Gothic Revival & Empire
Room 122 looks at the Gothic Revival in architecture and design in the 19th century. During this time, powerful rel…
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Room 123: Celebration & Commemoration
Room 123 includes an interesting display of commemorative items made for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.…
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Room 125: Morris, Dresser & Mackintosh
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery looks at the different styles which prevailed in the late 19th century. These i…
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Room 125c: Influences from Beyond Europe
This gallery shows objects from Victorian Britain when retailers sold a growing range of goods imported from Asia a…
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Room 9: The Rise of the Gothic 1200–1350
The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery shows the development of the Gothic style in a wider social and cultural con…
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Room 10a: Noble Living 1350–1500
The Françoise and Georges Selz Gallery is devoted to luxury goods found in the households of rich nobles and wealty…
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Room 50: The Renaissance City 1350–1600
The Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery holds large-scale works, once part of impressive Renaissance buildings, are displ…
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Room 62: Splendour & Society 1500–1600
Including The Foyle Foundation Gallery, this gallery explores various aspects of life and social ritual.…
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Room 63: A World of Goods 1450–1600
The Edwin and Susan Davies examines how design ideas were exchanged within and outside Europe. Objects, sometimes s…
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Room 64: Renaissance Art & Ideas 1400–1550
The Wolfson Gallery explores Renaissance ideas and beliefs, particulary the interest in antiquity and classical pre…
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Interview with Shelly Goldsmith, textiles artist
Locating herself on the cusp of craft and fine artist, Shelly Goldsmith primarily works with textiles in her work. Goldsmith is also interested in the craft of weaving, especially woven tapestry, and stitch related to clothing. She has used materials as far-ranging as silk, wool, glass and coal.
What's the difference? Climate comparisons for the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries
The act of displaying artefacts inevitably impacts on their preservation. Understanding the interaction between collections and their environments is an essential element in determining display strategies that adequately balance the needs of current visitors with long-term preservation issues for the artefacts. This article describes a new analytical approach developed at the V&A to allow gallery climates quantitatively to be assessed in terms of the hazards they pose to artefacts.
Developing the Islamic Middle East gallery and touring exhibition
In 2003, the V& A received a substantial donation from Hartwell plc, part of the Abdul Latif Jameel Group, to transform one of its historic galleries into a fitting home for the superb collection of Islamic art.
The British Galleries 1500-1900: An Overview
The refurbishment of the British Galleries is one of the largest and most exciting projects the V& A has ever undertaken. The world's most important collection of British art and design will be redisplayed in a new and glorious setting.
The new miniatures gallery
The new Miniatures Gallery tells the story of the portrait miniature in Britain from its first appearance at the court of Henry VIII.
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Event - British Galleries Tour
Mon 19 January 2009–Mon 31 December 2012
TOUR: Join this daily one hour tour which introduces the V&A's stunning British Galleries which house the most comprehensive collection of British design and art on view anywhere in the world.
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