One of the main aims for the V&A is to make our gallery developments and events and activities visitor-focused and so we have an active and wide-ranging programme of visitor research. Broadly, the research we do can be divided into three categories: galleries, visitor research, learning programmes research.
V&A Gallery Research
How we develop new galleries, test concepts and ideas with our prospective visitors, ask for visitors’ feedback on various different types of interpretation that we are con…
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Learning Progammes Research
The V&A researches into learning and interpretation within the museum environment ranging from research assessing programmes that we run, to looking at current museological…
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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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Baroque: Magnificence & Style (Paperback)

The complexity and sophistication of Baroque art, developed through the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, could be understood as an attempt …
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Wed 24 April 2013–Wed 26 June 2013

OPEN STUDIO: Visit the V&A Residency Studios to meet design resident Julia Lohmann. Find out about her research, creative practice and work in progress. 13.00-16.00
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