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Raphael Cartoons panoramic photography project at V&A. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photograph: Gabriel Scarpa for Factum Foundation © Factum Foundation

Exciting new plans for the Raphael Cartoons and Raphael Court

In 2020, we will mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death by transforming the way visitors experience our iconic Raphael Cartoons, loaned to the V&A from the Royal...

FuturePlan updates

Gus Casely-Hayford is inaugural director of V&A East

Penguin Donkey bookcase and WOBO bottles

A new 20th and 21st Century Gallery at the V&A

Raphael Cartoons panoramic photography project at V&A. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photograph: Gabriel Scarpa for Factum Foundation © Factum Foundation

Exciting new plans for the Raphael Cartoons and Raphael Court

The Tampax Cup. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Rapid Response Collecting: the Tampax Cup

Artfund New Collectors award

Raphael Cartoon, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes: Luke Chapter 5: Verses 1–11, by Raphael, 1515 – 16, Italy. Museum no. ROYAL LOANS.2. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

V&A prepares for Raphael 500 celebrations

© Daniel Leal-Olivas/Getty Images

Design and society

Extinction Rebellion objects acquired for our collections

Our programme for 2020

The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland

V&A Dundee’s future exhibition programme

All you need to know ahead of Antiques Roadshow at V&A Dundee

Family Friendly Museum Award 2019!

V&A Innovate

V&A Dundee shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019

V&A Dundee shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019

Videogames: what to expect in Dundee

Happy Birthdays, Victoria and Albert!

Culture in Crisis

Inside the Milan Triennale’s UK Pavilion with Forensic Architecture

Antiques Roadshow at V&A Dundee

Queen Victoria’s sapphire and diamond coronet to go on permanent display from April 2019

On museums and civic life

Today, the role of museums in supporting democracy strikes me as more vital than it has been for a generation – Tristram Hunt in the Art...

Refurbishing our spectacular Jewellery Gallery

Queen Victoria's coronet

V&A Dundee announces next exhibitions

Fashioned from Nature

Environmental Audit Select Committee

Countdown to Quant!

Our new Photography Centre is now open

Transforming the V&A Museum of Childhood

Opening V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee opens to the world

V&A Dundee sitting on the Tay with mist beyond obscuring Fife

Everything you need to know about V&A Dundee’s opening weekend

Design and society

V&A acquires Xbox adaptive controller set to revolutionise accessibility in videogaming

Xbox Adaptive Controller, developed by Microsoft. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

children and adults sitting at a table posing together smiling

Introducing The Thomson Learning Centre