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How could the metaverse effect the way we operate and support digital practice in museums?

The ‘metaverse’– broadly defined as an always-online and persistent spatial virtual world – has recently received global attention with Mark Zuckerberg’s claim to it...

Digital at the V&A

Design and society

How could the metaverse effect the way we operate and support digital practice in museums?

Advice on Creative Careers

The Hero Arm: why children make great designers

Sian Fan – digital wonderlands resident

Design and society

Digital Design Weekend 2021

Design and society

Born-digital objects and the not so digital challenges for museum collections

Friday Late: ‘spirit moves’ by anaiis

Friday Late: Extended Play x Mahalia

Friday Late: ‘Echoes’ by Le Gateau Chocolat

Person in a sharply cut orange wig, wearing a pink and purple sparkly cloak, holding balloons in one hand and sparkly red shoes in the other

Machine Vision symposium

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new digital wonderlands residency

How We Brought the Online Collections into the Modern Age using Web Technology of the Past

If you are reading this blog post, hopefully you will have seen – and been enjoying using – Explore The Collections. I have been a part of the development team for...

Elemental figure wearing suit of human hair. He is crying and has red eyes. He has hair that has grown across his head as part of his transformation

Friday Late: ‘Bring Me To Heal’

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Making the V&A’s collections more discoverable online

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Friday Late: Choreography in the digital sphere with MassHysteria

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Explore the Collections Beta – give us your feedback!

Friday Late: African Fashions on Film

Announcing Explore the Collections

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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

How we made ‘Curious Alice’ part two – an interview with PRELOADED

Friday Late: Nabihah Iqbal

Testing Curious Alice in a VR headset

How we made ‘Curious Alice’ a (virtual) reality: part one

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Friday Lates are back with FUBUNATION

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The Glastonbury Festival database

Glastonbury Festival, 1979

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ASMR at the V&A – with Charlie Chaplin’s hat

Playful Kimono

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Can we run a design workshop remotely?

Design and society

Pandemic Objects: Spreadsheet

International Museum Day 2020: A Voysey Odyssey

Design and society

Pandemic Objects: Streaming Services

Design and society

Pandemic Objects: Google Street View

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William Morris meets Nintendo

In case you’ve missed us…

A new digital map for the V&A

Caring for our collections

Cataloguing the Courtaulds Textiles Design Library: Spotlight on 10 Objects

What V&A objects have you been searching for in 2019

Design and society

Weapons and gynaecology: making as need and desire

13 Spook-tacular V&A objects for Halloween

Linked Art Showcase

Design and society

In exchange for your data

A woman and a man installing a poster exhibition at the V&A, Emil Otto Hoppé, 1931. E.655-1996

How are the V&A’s online collections used?

Design and society

There’s something growing at the V&A….

Artfund New Collectors award

Minidress testers modelling their dresses at the V&A.

Love sewing? Love Mary Quant? We need you!

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