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Museum life

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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Open call: apply for a new shifting perspectives residency

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Residency Programme facilitates space for art, design and performance practitioners from a multitude of disciplines to activate the Museum’s...

Friday Late

Friday Late is back for 2022!

Diamante toast and fried egg with 'FRIDAY LATE' in yellow text over the top

Friday Late: ‘spirit moves’ by anaiis

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V&A South Kensington Youth Collective

Advice on Creative Careers

V&A Youth Collective / Creative career advice – interview with Samantha Manton

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From the learning department

Building Creativity

We are working to transform the V&A Museum of Childhood into a powerhouse of creativity for the young. The site in Bethnal Green is fully decanted (as you may have seen in...

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new shifting perspectives residency

Reinvent Festival: Young V&A Summer family events

Do-it-yourself building blocks

Young V&A Reinvent Festival / reinventing a museum for the young

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V&A Illustration Awards

Illustration from My Name is not Refugee by Kate Milner. Illustration shows refugees in sleeping bags

Design and society

V&A Illustration Awards: In Conversation with Kate Milner (Student Illustrator of the Year 2016)

V&A Illustration Awards 2022 Shortlist Announcement

The V&A Illustration Awards 2022 are now open

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

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Photography

Parasol Women in Photography

A white embroidered shirt against a black background

Joana Choumali in conversation

Art for the People

The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Sourcing beauty: a conversation with Moses Quiquine

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Artists in Residence at the V&A

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

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Open call: apply for a new digital wonderlands residency

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Sourcing beauty: a conversation with Moses Quiquine

Artists in Residence at the V&A

The Unseen in Isolation

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Sculpture

Caring for our collections

A closer look at Grinling Gibbons’ wood panel of the Stoning of St Stephen

Terracotta in South Kensington: the Origins of a Revival

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Furniture and Woodwork

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

Furniture and Woodwork

New acquisition: Brionvega RR126 ‘radiofonografo’

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Gilbert Gems

Gilbert and Gems

‘Place to Place’, by Adi Toch

Caring for our collections

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

A silver pilgrim bottle with stopper

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The National Art Library

Illustration from My Name is not Refugee by Kate Milner. Illustration shows refugees in sleeping bags

Design and society

V&A Illustration Awards: In Conversation with Kate Milner (Student Illustrator of the Year 2016)

The V&A Illustration Awards 2022 are now open

A new direction for the National Art Library, Archives and Research at the V&A

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Theatre and Performance

Caring for our collections

A New Hope: reassembling a Stormtrooper costume

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

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

The Royal Albert Hall's great Organ

Performing porcelain

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

Our Hackney Empire

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Out in the Museum

New York’s Most Exciting Discotheque?

Blood Equality posters

Chez Madame Palmyre

Ernest Thesiger: Singularly sybaritic

Caring for our collections

Marie Laurencin and the lesbian Left Bank

News and Updates

Queer Expressions: LGBT History Month, Sat 24th February

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

News and Updates

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...

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V&A Faces

A day in the life of a V&A guide

Giving talks at the V&A during a pandemic

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