Size of the V&A collections
How many items are there in the V&A collections? How many collection items are on display? & How much of the V&A co…
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Plastics? Not in My Collection
The Victoria & Albert Museum appointed its first plastics conservator in 1992 with the brief of surveying all the plastic objects within the collections.  
Collecting Japanese cloisonné enamels at the V&A
Collecting Japanese cloisonné enamels at the V&A
Designs collections at the V&A
The Victoria and Albert Museum has an outstanding collection of design drawings, encompassing European and American drawings for architecture and interiors, and sculpture, and for the applied and industrial arts, including ceramics, furniture, jewellery, metalwork, stained glass, product design, graphic design, fashion, textiles and wallpaper.
The Silk Road & the V&A Stein collection
The Silk Road was the collection of routes across Central Asia which connected China and the Far East with the Mediterranean and the Far West. Trade routes through the arid Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin had already been utilised by the Shang and Zhou and were fully established under the Han dynasty in the second century BC.
The history of the musical instruments collection
The V&A has some of the most beautiful instruments to be found in any public collection in the world. This is a brief history of the musical instruments in the V&A collections.
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The Gilbert Collection at the V&A
This book accompanies the spectacular collection of the Gilbert Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Buy nowEvent - Behind the Scenes: Introduction to pest management
Mon 12 March 2012 11:00
FREE TALK: Val Blyth, the V&A Preventive Conservator will explain how to protect museum collections from pests and will show how you to recognise pests under a microscope.
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