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International Museum Day 2020: A Voysey Odyssey

It’s a very different International Museum Day today for us, with our museum buildings still closed and those of our colleagues around the world. Well, all except for that...

Digital at the V&A

The Glastonbury Festival database

Glastonbury Festival, 1979

Caring for our collections

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

Playful Kimono

Add your memories to the Glastonbury Festival Archive

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

Google Street View

William Morris meets Nintendo

In case you’ve missed us…

A new digital map for the V&A

Clothworkers' Centre

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!

IIIF, WordPress and Shakespeare too.

Sculpture of two bear cubs wrestling

Redesigning the V&A’s collections online

Interview with the Workers about Immersive Dickens

A New developer’s Introduction to IIIF at the V&A

Grace Murray Hopper

How to turn a Charles Dickens manuscript into an immersive theatre experience for teenagers

Culture in Crisis

Inside the Milan Triennale’s UK Pavilion with Forensic Architecture

V&A Dundee’s first videogame commission

How might we … use games to foster empathy?

Nintendo’s ‘Splatoon’ at Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt

New Videogame Commissions

What V&A objects have you been searching for in 2018?

Most popular Search Terms (as of today – this post will be updated in the new year with final numbers). As noted last year, this list is of searches where visitors have typed...

Parallel Worlds 2019 – A Conference on Videogame Design and Culture

Matteo Menapace, games designer in residence 2018-19, while playtesting a game prototype with A-level students

Artists in Residence at the V&A

People who make games were once people who never made a game

6 things we didn’t anticipate before publishing Videogames

Moving Backgrounds, the Accessible Way.

171 Clouds from the V&A Online Collection, 1630-1885 – a new commission by Penelope Umbrico

Introducing Rromok – a simulation game developed by Rites Network

Deciphering Little Dorrit at the Dickens Universe, July 2018

Transcribing Little Dorrit

Leila Johnston

Digital Art with Leila Johnston

Guest blog post: Fall of the House of Usher. Datasets and Decay

David Copperfield manuscript by Charles Dickens

Designing a minimum viable experience

Will Worsley recording some modular synthesizer parts for the exhibition soundscape.

Videogames – an interview with sound designers Coda to Coda

Design and society

V&A acquires Xbox adaptive controller set to revolutionise accessibility in videogaming

Xbox Adaptive Controller, developed by Microsoft. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Feminist Data Set workshop: How to Make, Collect or Archive Feminist Data

Visualising the Royal Photographic Society collection: Part 2

Artificially Intelligent. Digital Design Weekend 2018

The Future Starts Here – an interview with design studio Superflux

Visualising the Royal Photographic Society collection