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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

Royal Photographic Society work in progress: the archivist’s perspective

Caring for our collections

Introducing the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Project

Mari Katayama – V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography commission ‘tree of life’

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

Who’s in the photograph?

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V&A Illustration Awards

Claire Harrup – Layered landscapes

2026 V&A Illustration Awards Shortlist Update

Jorge González – winner of the 2024 V&A Illustration Award for Adult Fiction

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

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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

Aya Simone Schmidt’s residency with the V&A Wedgwood Collection and the Danish Arts Foundation

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

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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

Gilbert and Gems

Objects, images and stories: Jewish cultural histories at the V&A

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

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The National Art Library

Nazi-era provenance research on the National Art Library’s collection of German books

From September 2025 to March 2026, I undertook a CHASE-AHRC doctoral placement at the V&A. As part of its ongoing provenance research initiatives, my project examines the...

Claire Harrup – Layered landscapes

Expanding the book: A new National Art Library display

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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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