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Opening 19 May

From 19 May all of our seven miles of galleries will reopen alongside a host of new exhibitions and free displays.

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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

From 22 May 2021 until 31 Dec 2021

Detached folio from an illuminated manuscript of the Shahnameh for Shah Tahmasp, 1525 – 35, Tabriz. The Sarikhani Collection, I.MS.4025.

Epic Iran is organised by the V&A with the Iran Heritage Foundation in association with The Sarikhani Collection

From 29 May 2021 until 12 Sep 2021

Cigar Box with a view of the Houses of Parliament, Fabergé. Chief Workmaster Henrik Wigstrom, nephrite, two-colour gold, sepia enamel, 1908. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021

Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution

From 20 Nov 2021 until 8 May 2022

Background image: Daffodils and a Red Admiral Butterfly, watercolour, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, about 1575, England. Museum no. AM.3267A-1856. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Renaissance Watercolours

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

Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics

From 18 Sep 2021 until 28 Nov 2021

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

On Point: Royal Academy of Dance at 100

Untitled, by Katerina Jebb, London/Paris 2020. © Katerina Jebb

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Katerina Jebb / Elizabeth Parker

Members' Week 2021

From 19 May 2021 until 30 May 2021

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

Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East

From 19 May 2021 until 17 Oct 2021

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