London Design Festival 2021

We've transformed spaces across the museum with special projects addressing some of the biggest challenges facing society today.

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Exhibition

Bags: Inside Out

From 12 Dec 2020 until 16 Jan 2022

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Exhibition

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

From 22 May 2021 until 31 Dec 2021

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(Detail) Pentecost, attributed to Silvestro dei Gherarducci, from a gradual made for the monastery of San Michele in Murano, 1392 – 99, Florence, Italy. Museum no. 3045. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A

From 8 Sep 2021 until 8 May 2022

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London Design Festival 2021

From 18 Sep 2021 until 26 Sep 2021

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Paradise Has Many Gates – Daytime, by Ajlan Gharem, 2015. © Photograph by Ajlan Gharem

Exhibition

Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics

From 18 Sep 2021 until 28 Nov 2021

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Painted enamel rose with nephrite leaves standing in a rock crystal pot, from Fabergé's London stock when the branch closed in 1917. © Wartski, London

Exhibition

Faberge: Romance to Revolution

From 20 Nov 2021 until 8 May 2022

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Watercolour from The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter, 1908, England. Courtesy of National Trust and Frederick Warne & Co. Photo © National Trust Robert Thrift

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Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

From 12 Feb 2022 until 25 Sep 2022

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Gucci Pre-Fall 2019 Men's Tailoring Campaign. Creative Director: Alessandro Michele. Art Director: Christopher Simmonds. Photographer & Director: Harmony Korine. Courtesy of Gucci.

Exhibition

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

From 19 Mar 2022 until 6 Nov 2023

From 11 Jun 2022 until 16 Apr 2023

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Psy performs Gangnam Style on TODAY, 2012, New York, USA. Courtesy of Jason Decrow/Invision/AP/Shutterstock

Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea

Exhibition

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

From 24 Sep 2022 until 25 Jun 2023

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Panel of five tiles, from the series ‘Kashi and Kashan’, Abbas Akbari, 2019, Tehran, Iran. Museum nos. ME.43 to 47-2020 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East

From 19 May 2021 until 17 Oct 2021

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Festival

Upstart: Creative Careers Festival

From 1 Oct 2021 until 2 Oct 2021

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The Unseen, gelatin silver print, by Tereza Zelenkova, 2015. Museum no. E.218-2018. Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group. © Tereza Zelenkova

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Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection

From 6 Nov 2021 until 6 Nov 2022

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Tapping a Furnace, Ford, Dagenham, Essex, by Maurice Broomfield, 1954, printed 2006, England. Museum no. E.3727-2007. © Estate of Maurice Broomfield

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Maurice Broomfield: Industrial Sublime

From 6 Nov 2021 until 6 Nov 2022

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Harlequin statue by Alfred Gilbert for Production Club (RAD), date unknown. Presented to the RAD in 1924 by Stanislas Idzikowski. © Ali Wright, Dance Gazette

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On Point: Royal Academy of Dance at 100

From 2 Dec 2020 until 1 May 2022

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Photograph by Jon Stokes. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Richard Batterham: Studio Potter

From 26 Nov 2021 until 26 Sep 2022

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Between Forests and Skies

From 18 Sep 2021 until 17 Oct 2021

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