Places must be booked in advance for all the following events. Please Click here to print a booking form, or telephone the V&A Box Office on 020 7942 2209. All tickets for booked events include free entry to the museum and the exhibition unless otherwise stated.

EVENING FOR EDUCATORS

Thursday 3 May 18.30-21.30
Aimed at teachers and lecturers of all phases and subject specialisms who are considering bringing groups to the exhibition. This evening will include a talk by the exhibition's co-curator, Suzanne Fagence Cooper, and a visit to the exhibition.

Pay bar available. Admission is FREE, but prior booking is essential. Telephone 020 7942 2209 for tickets.

STUDY DAYS

Victorian Visions: Culture and Society in Britain, 1837-1901
Friday 18th May - Saturday 19th May, 10.30 - 17.00
Lecture Theatre. Organised jointly by the V&A and the Victorian Society.

The centenary of Queen Victoria's death in 2001 provides an ideal opportunity for the V&A to stage an exhibition that reassesses the legacy of the Victorians. The exhibition The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain explores five main themes: Royalty, Society, Nature, The World and Technology.
These themes will provide a focus for two linked study days jointly organised by the V&A with The Victorian Society. Slide lectures, music and readings from the work of eminent Victorians will illuminate the fascinating and often contradictory views the Victorians had of themselves.
The days will explore aspects of Victorian popular and high culture as well as the moral and philosophical debates of the period. They will provide students and the general public with an accessible and enjoyable way to learn more about the Victorians and their world.

Friday 18 May:

• Readings from Queen Victoria's journals
• 'The impress of the moving age': Charles Dickens and social realism. Dr Tony Williams
• Case Study: model of the steam locomotive, Firefly, designed by Daniel Gooch for the Great Western Railway. Paul Atterbury, curator, Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision
• Music Hall Songs
• Case Study: Walter Sickert's painting 'The Gallery at the Old Bedford Music Hall', c.1894-95, Rebecca Daniels
• Prudery or Prurience: moral objections to the nude in art. Dr Alison Smith
• Reading of passage from the conclusion of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species

Saturday 19 May:

• The Empire and the Global Gaze. Professor John MacKenzie
• Case study: a Yoruba sculpture of Queen Victoria. Suzanne Fagence Cooper, co-curator, Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision
• Visualising Victorians: graphic media in the nineteenth century. John Plunkett
• Reading from Gladstone's speech on the Don Pacifico Affair, 27 June 1850
• Parlour Songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan and others
• Case Study: Orchardleigh, a Victorian country house, architect T.H.Wyatt, 1856. Richard Holder
• Sir G.G.Scott, the leading architect of his day. Dr Gavin Stamp
• Reading of extracts from William Morris's The Beauty of Art
• Death and Dominion: The Cultural Impact of Queen Victoria's funeral. Dr Christopher Brooks

Study Day Tickets:

• Full rate: £28 per day
• Concessionary rates: Senior Citizens, Friends and Patrons of the V&A, members of the Victorian Society (with proof of membership): £22 per day
• Students on state funded courses: £7.50 per day
• Registered disabled and ES40 holders: £5 per day
• A free place can be offered to a carer accompanying a registered disabled person and to a teacher/lecturer accompanying ten or more students
• Ticket price includes morning coffee, afternoon tea and admission to the exhibition and the Museum on the day of the event A 10% discount is available in the V&A bookshop during the study days on the book The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain, edited by John M. MacKenzie, on presentation of your study day ticket.

SHORT COURSE
The Victorians: Makers of the Modern World
Tuesday 12 June - Friday 15th June, 10.30-16.00
Lecture Theatre

The course introduces the complexity of Victoria's reign and explores the five main themes of the exhibition: Royalty, Society, Nature, The World and Technology. There will be an opportunity to visit the exhibition.
Coffee and tea are available each morning, and for full course ticket holders, a lunch in the magnificent Victorian Gamble Room will be provided on the first day.

Tuesday 12 June. Introduction: Victorian Britain and Empire

• Welcome and introduction. Angela Cox, course organiser, V&A
• Why Victorians…? Suzanne Fagence Cooper, exhibition co-curator
• Victoria's 'New Britain'. Paul Atterbury, exhibition curator
• The Wider World: Victoria's Empire. Professor John MacKenzie, consultant curator and editor of Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision
• The Great Exhibition, 1851. Geoffrey Opie, freelance lecturer
• Painting in focus: 'The Secret of England's Greatness', by T.J. Barker. Angela Cox, Education Department, V&A

Wednesday 13 June. Society

• Visit to Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision exhibition
• Society and respectability. Dr. Matthew Grimley, Lincoln College, Oxford
• The 'New Woman'. Suzanne Fagence Cooper
• Painting in focus: 'The Light of the World', by W.Holman Hunt. Angela Cox

Thursday 14 June. Nature

• Landscape and taste. Justine Hopkins, freelance lecturer
• William Morris and the Natural World (speaker to be announced)
• The Evolution Debate. Dr. Frank James, Royal Institution
• Painting in focus: 'Pegwell Bay, Kent - A Recollection of October 5 1858', by W.Dyce. Justine Hopkins

Friday 15 June. Modernity: The Impact of New Technologies

• Architecture and Engineering. Kate Aan De Wiel, freelance lecturer
• 'Trains and boats and planes (almost!).' Paul Atterbury
• Visual communication: photography and film. Brian Liddy, National Museum of Film, Photography and Television.
• Domestic objects in focus: technology in the home. Paul Atterbury.

Short Course Tickets
Full Course

• Full rate: £117.
• Senior Citizens, Friends and Patrons of the V&A: £107
• Students: £37.50
• Registered disabled and ES40 holders: £27.50
• Ticket price includes coffee, tea, and, for full course ticket holders, lunch on the first day of the course

Daily Rate

• Full rate: £30. Senior Citizens, Friends and Patrons of the V&A: £27
• Students: £7.50
• Registered disabled, ES40 holders: £5

WEDNESDAY LATE VIEW The Museum is open every Wednesday from 10.00-22.00. Selected ground floor galleries remain open until 21.45, including the exhibition Inventing New Britain: Victorian Vision. The entry to the Museum is free after 16.30 with an exhibition entry charge of £2.50. Last entry to the exhibition 21.00.

Late View events for Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision

• Wednesday 4 April 18.30 - 22.00
  Preview of Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision and introductory lecture by Paul Atterbury, the co-curator of the exhibition. In the Lecture Theatre, 19.15-20.00
• Wednesday 18th July 18.30-22.00
  on 'Motherhood and Modernity', Suzanne Fagence Cooper, co-curator of Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision in the Lecture Theatre, 9.15-20.00.
• Wednesday 25 July 18.30-22.00
  Summer party with a Victorian theme. Come dressed as a Victorian Vision - from art, literature or real life! Introductory lecture by Paul Atterbury, co-curator of the exhibition. In the Lecture Theatre, 19.15-20.00

Late View Lecture Tickets

• Late View lecture tickets cost £8
• Concessionary rate £5 for Friends of the V&A and students in full-time education
• For further information on Late View, to obtain a leaflet giving details of the lecture programme, or to book tickets for the Late View lectures, please telephone the V&A Box Office on 020 7942 2209