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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

Cataloguing ‘Imaginary Club’ by Oliver Sieber – Part 1

Cataloguing ‘Imaginary Club’ by Oliver Sieber – Part 2

New photography acquisition by Ilanit Illouz

Winners announced: 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography

Women photographers and the domestic studio

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V&A Illustration Awards

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

In conversation with Benjamin Phillips – winner of the 2024 V&A Illustration for Children Award and the Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year

V&A Illustration Awards 2024 – the winners!

Looking for visual narrative in illustration – an interview with V&A Illustration Awards winner and judge, James Albon

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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...

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

May half-term 2023

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Sculpture

A window into Mughal craftsmanship: conservation of a C16th white marble jali

A sculpture merging Jamaican culture with utility

A wooden cylindrical lamp stand, with a face and body, lizard, and snake carved into it

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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

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

Caring for our collections

To loan, or not to loan?

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The National Art Library

Call for papers – ‘Bibliomigrancy amongst the Ruins: post-1945 Book Movement’

A richly illustrated life: Maud Berkeley’s diaries arrive in the NAL

Explore National Art Library collections at V&A East Storehouse

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Theatre and Performance

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

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

The Royal Albert Hall's great Organ

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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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