This is part of an ongoing series of blog posts by students of the V&A/RCA History of Design MA programme, composed to accompany the ‘Building the Royal Albert...
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...
Corrie Tan, volunteer in the Department of Theatre and Performance, describes her experience working with Theatre and Performance Collections. I’m on tiptoes atop a yellow...
A collaborative project with the V&A, Bidean and MIND (Kensington & Chelsea) Generously funded by the The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation Following on...
Harry Dougall recently graduated with an MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art. His dissertation Alexander Barker (1797-1873) and the South Kensington...
Assistant Curator, Janet Birkett, explores V&A Theatre and Performance Collections for examples of pigs in British theatre. Readers of The Stage newspaper will be familiar...
A little bit of Hollywood at Blythe . . . This Advanced Works blog post will focus on the V&A’s wonderful Theatre and Performance collection with a specific focus on...
Assistant Curator, Alice Young, takes a closer look at the Actors Touring Company Archive. The V&A Department of Theatre and Performance recently acquired the Actors Touring...
After listening avidly to the soundtrack of the multi-award winning musical Hamilton: An American...
Ensuring the health of the internet requires a diversity of approaches and voices. Art and design play key roles in engaging new audiences around these social issues and in...
Outside the V&A is one of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s famous red telephone boxes. It was one of around 1700 of the K2 type installed in the UK between 1926 and 1935. Its...
Hearing, together with its active component, listening, is a means by which we sense the events of life, aurally visualize spatial geometry, propagate cultural symbols, stimulate...
Assistant Curator, Harriet Reed, explores the history of Irish theatre and shares a few of the highlights from the V&A Theatre and Performance Collections. ‘It is...
This is the first of some small snapshots of items of interest that the Guard Books of black & white negatives are finding.. Remember these…. in a previous blog I...
A collaborative project with the V&A’s Adult Communities Team The National Lottery Funded ‘Retracing Ribeiro’ project celebrates the legacy of the Indian painter...
Today, we have opened our new Members’ Room, a characteristic V&A mix of heritage, modernity and design ingenuity. The innovative design by architects Carmody Groarke...