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Writing from curators and department experts. These stories range from new discoveries about objects, to behind-the-scenes life at the museum.

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V&A Illustration Awards 2024 – the shortlists!

Explore the shortlisted entries for the 2024 V&A Illustration...

Photography

Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in 19th-Century Institutions

Who’s in the photograph?

In Conversation: Jo Ractliffe & Lebohang Kganye on Memory, Landscape, and Photography

Cataloguing ‘Imaginary Club’ by Oliver Sieber – Part 1

Cataloguing ‘Imaginary Club’ by Oliver Sieber – Part 2

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V&A Illustration Awards

How to… Make your Illustration Award entry stand out from the crowd

In conversation with Aditi Anand – winner of the 2024 V&A Illustration Award for Emerging Illustrator

Design and society

The 2026 V&A Illustration Awards welcomes your entries!

In conversation with Paul Blow – winner of the 2024 V&A Illustration Award for Advertising and Commercial

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From the learning department

Rebecca Stevenson / Our Shifting Perspectives Resident

I’m excited to announce Rebecca Stevenson as the V&A Shifting Perspectives Resident. Rebecca is a sculptor based in London who makes work with a variety of media, including...

Autumn at Young V&A

Announcing our V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2023 – 24 winners!

pupils from Central Foundation Girls School, London with the judges.

V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2023 – 2024 shortlist announced

Innovate judges looking through student challenge entries

Nurturing creative confidence in early years: A virtual conversation

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Sculpture

Caring for our collections

African history at the V&A: objects and interpretation

Conference – Sacred Ceramics: Devotional Images in European Porcelain, 30 September 2025

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Artists in Residence at the V&A

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Florence Dwyer: DesignLab Nation resident

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Introducing the Adobe Creative Residency Programme

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Rebecca Stevenson / Our Shifting Perspectives Resident

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new shifting perspectives residency

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Call-out for two VARI Residencies: Championing Newham’s histories of making and manufacture

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Furniture and Woodwork

Design and society

An experiment in the forest

Caring for our collections

Imaging and Imagining Grinling Gibbons’ Limewood Cravat

Carved limewood cravat

V&A East | Kaufmann Office

Caring for our collections

How to deinstall a complicated object

Furniture and Woodwork

Luterma plywood bags

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Gilbert Gems

Caring for our collections

Provenance Research in the Gilbert Collection

Gilbert and Gems

Portuguese royal silver in the Gilbert Collection

Gilbert and Gems

Cognitive Stimulation Therapy and Dementia at the V&A

Gilbert and Gems

‘Place to Place’, by Adi Toch

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The National Art Library

A gift from John Westwood to the National Art Library

Experimental binding design by John Westwood for Together and Alone, by Christopher Whitfield, published by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 (barcode) The National Art Library’s...

Demystifying Jobbing Printing at the National Art Library

The National Art Library’s blossoming digital collection

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Theatre and Performance

V&A and Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust award their first Musical Theatre Fellows and Grant Recipients

Karen Nicholson

Applications now open for new Musical Theatre Research Grants and Fellowships launched by V&A and Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust

Frederika Davis

Caring for our collections

A New Hope: reassembling a Stormtrooper costume

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

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Out in the Museum

Ten years of celebrating LGBTQIA+ lives at the V&A

Myths & Muses: Queering the V&A

Transgender Awareness Week

Print of the month

Out at Young V&A: LGBTQ+ stories for children and young people

New York’s Most Exciting Discotheque?

Blood Equality posters

Chez Madame Palmyre

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V&A Faces

Ten years of celebrating LGBTQIA+ lives at the V&A

A day in the life of a V&A guide

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