Museum life

In conversation with Ruo-Hsin Wu, V&A Illustration Awards Student Shortlist 2020

V&A Illustration Awards – In conversation with Laura Winstone (Student Shortlist 2020)

V&A Illustration Awards – In conversation with Eva Eland (Book Cover Design Award 2020)

In conversation with Kate Winter, V&A Illustration Awards Student Shortlist 2020

Photography

Our projects

Terracotta in South Kensington: the Origins of a Revival

Sourcing beauty: a conversation with Moses Quiquine

An interview with Roger Palmer

Bringing the outside inside: studio photography

Design and society

An Interview with Pablo Ortíz Monasterio

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new digital wonderlands residency

Sourcing beauty: a conversation with Moses Quiquine

The Unseen in Isolation

Seeing More: glow-in-the-dark glass

Gayle Chong Kwan – ‘Capturing Motion’

Sculpture

Our projects

Terracotta in South Kensington: the Origins of a Revival

Plaster casts and the value of knowledge

Furniture and Woodwork

Conservation

V&A East | Kaufmann Office

Creating the new Europe 1600–1815 Galleries

How to deinstall a complicated object

Furniture and Woodwork

Luterma plywood bags

Furniture and Woodwork

New acquisition: Brionvega RR126 ‘radiofonografo’

Installing the period rooms

The first objects to be installed into the Europe galleries were the period rooms, which are now all fully built. There are three period rooms in the galleries – a 17th-century...

Gilbert Gems

To loan, or not to loan?

Gilbert and Gems

Concealed Histories: Uncovering the Story of Nazi Looting

Gilbert and Gems

Huguenot goldsmiths, silver and wine in war-time Britain

Gilbert and Gems

From Idea to Installation: How a display is made at the V&A

The National Art Library

Design and society

Flowers fit for a crystal palace

In conversation with Ruo-Hsin Wu, V&A Illustration Awards Student Shortlist 2020

V&A Illustration Awards – In conversation with Laura Winstone (Student Shortlist 2020)

Theatre and Performance

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal Albert Hall. 1/12: The Great Organ

Our projects

Performing porcelain

Three figures from the V&A superimposed on to a table top

Our Hackney Empire

Seven Decades of Rock History – Live at the V&A for one weekend only!

Out in the Museum

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

Marie Laurencin and the lesbian Left Bank

Queer Expressions: LGBT History Month, Sat 24th February

Figure 4. The Butler Bowden Cope, T.36-1955, on display in the exhibition

Being Human Festival at the V&A : The Queer Allure of Art Deco

Being Human Festival at the V&A : The Queer Allure of Art Deco Sat 25 November 2017, 15:00 – 17:00 Prints and Drawings Study Room, V&A Museum Ticketed event, booking...

Out in the Museum

Balenciaga: Love and Hats!

This blog is by Anne-Margaux Illido, a postgraduate student in Art History and Museum Curating at the University of Sussex, currently completing a placement at the V&A with...

V&A Pride and more …

Those of you who follow the V&A on social media, may have already realised that things are looking a bit different this weekend. The Museum has adopted a most colourful logo...

Out in the Museum

LGBTQ Gallery Tour – view online!

Toilet Talk: Looking for non-gender-specific toilets?

V&A Faces

African Heritage Guides at the V&A – reflections