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Friday Late x Jameel: Museum Leila

April’s Friday Late, Museum Leila, is a fashion film devoted to contemporary fashion design from the Middle East and North Africa. Created by British-Algerian director...

Digital at the V&A

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Friday Late x Jameel: Museum Leila

V&A launches new developer API

Making the V&A’s collections more discoverable online

Screenshot of the new V&A Collections website

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Friday Late: Choreography in the digital sphere with MassHysteria

Explore the Collections search page for 'Raphael'

Explore the Collections Beta – give us your feedback!

Friday Late: African Fashions on Film

Announcing Explore the Collections

Modelling and shading a 3D mesh

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

Museum interactives

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

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!

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