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Katy Canales

Project Curator, Young V&A Museum

I am the curator for the upcoming exhibition Japan: Myths to Manga, which is opening on 14 October at Young V&A. The exhibition is a celebration of Japanese folktales and landscapes and their enduring influence on art, design and technology. My home department is Young V&A's Collections. I work on museum exhibitions, displays and community engagement collaborations. My specialist area is children's clothing. The V&A's children's clothing collection contains over 6,000 items and spans 400 years.

Museum life

Blossoms in Bethnal Green

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Our News

Japan’s epic tales and playful pursuits on display at Young V&A

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Our projects

The value of co-design

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Museum life

Research Data into Riveting Displays

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Our projects

Play in the Pandemic

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Museum life

Bethany Williams: Good Design

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Museum life

Fabric of the African Diaspora

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Caring for our collections

Dr Martens dips toe into new market

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Design and society

Pandemic Objects: Fancy Dress

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Museum life

Birthday Bear

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Auditing: Best foot forward

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News from the Learning Department

Spectacular NHS Spectacles

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The National Art Library

The deadly nature of fashion

This April, the Fashioned from Nature exhibition opens at the V&A Museum in South Kensington, where it will explore the complex relationship between fashion and nature....

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The National Art Library

The enduring appeal of Marimekko’s apparel

Last year Finland celebrated 100 years of independence. Despite its youthfulness, there is a lot we could learn from this new country with many indices citing it as ‘the most...

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V&A Museum of Childhood

LEGO is 60 Years Young!

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the invention of LEGO’s plastic bricks, the V&A Museum of Childhood’s Curatorial Assistant, Lauren vonBechmann, has been...

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The National Art Library

Road Trip! Britain to Berlin and back

The exhibition Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today has seen several configurations since it debuted at the Museum Vandalorum, Sweden in 2014. As the...

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News and Updates

Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today

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V&A Museum of Childhood

Sounds of Christmas!

In celebration of all the sounds of season, the V&A Museum of Childhood has developed a new festive display, where visitors can explore the sounds of Christmas past as well as...

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News and Updates

William Morris and the Printed Book

 I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty. It could be said that William Morris’s career started and ended with the...

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Coat Tales: Celebrating Creative Collaborations

A creative collaboration hit the catwalk in the heart of Hackney last night. The fashion show featured the final works created in the PROTOTYPE project between the London College...

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‘A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints’ – A Review

‘A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints’ is an ambitious exhibition. It sets out to explore the complex issues of gender identity, social status and sexual...

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News and Updates

Sheila Hicks: Material Voices – A Review

Review of Sheila Hicks: Material Voices  exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada. This is a stunning exhibition, which plays with the themes of memory, contrast and space....

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News and Updates

Animating history

Fly through time and space with two new animated films from artist and V&A photographer, George Eksts. The films provide spectacular and unfettered access into two...

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Our projects

Maria Graham: trailblazer and peepshow maker

Within the hundreds of captivating paper peepshows newly acquired by the National Art Library from the Gestetner Collection, there is one peepshow whose story and splendour, I...

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The National Art Library

Standing tall: Size matters

A review of ‘Standing tall: The curious history of men in heels’ at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto. Who would’ve thought that a few inches could be so significant, but...

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Museum life

New Peepshow Discoveries Come to Light

A Guest Post from Marie-Alix de Cools in Book Conservation The V&A recently received a wonderful collection of nearly 400 paper peepshows and other optical devices, a...

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Our projects

Paper peepshows – The world’s stage in the palm of your hand.

Slip off the cover, draw apart the bellows and peep through the hole to discover the multi-layered, multi-coloured, miniature world of the paper peepshow. In appearance the...

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V&A Museum of Childhood

Skeleton suits – The Enlightenment’s onesie?

Restrictive or liberating: skeleton suits have divided opinion since they first appeared in the late 1770s. Developed during the period of Enlightenment as an alternative to...

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V&A Museum of Childhood

Swaddling – babies in a tight bind!

I thought the task of changing a baby’s nappy was pretty arduous, but recently I have been looking at the babies clothes from 300 years ago and I can only conclude that children...

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V&A Museum of Childhood

Fancy dress from page, stage to screen

Characters from page, stage and screen have long been a rich source of inspiration for children’s fancy dress. At the V&A Museum of Childhood a whole host of these...

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