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FREE TIMED TICKETS

Book free timed entry

From 6 Aug 2020 until 19 Sep 2021

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Sponsored by Mulberry

Bags: Inside Out

From 12 Dec 2020 until 16 Jan 2022

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

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

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

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

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

From 12 Feb 2022 until 25 Sep 2022

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

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

From 19 Mar 2022 until 6 Nov 2023

'Indigo' Couture, by Kofi Ansah, models: Narh & Linda, 1997, Accra, Ghana. Photograph © Eric Don-Arthur

From 11 Jun 2022 until 16 Apr 2023

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

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

From 24 Sep 2022 until 25 Jun 2023

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

From 2 Dec 2020 until 8 Aug 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

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

Maurice Broomfield: Industrial Sublime

From 6 Nov 2021 until 6 Nov 2022

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

Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection

From 6 Nov 2021 until 6 Nov 2022

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

From 2 Dec 2020 until 1 May 2022

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

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Katerina Jebb / Elizabeth Parker

From 8 Mar 2021 until 29 Aug 2021

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