Online Talk: Enriching the V&A

Enriching the V&A, the concluding volume in a trilogy on the museum’s 19th-century history, describes how the young museum’s rapid growth was soon driven more by collectors, agents and dealers, through loans, gifts and bequests, than by the combined expertise, acquisitions policies and buying power of its directors and curators. In this talk, V&A Keeper Emeritus Julius Bryant will discuss his new work, exploring the formative influence on the museum, and on pioneering fields of scholarship, of the V&A’s leading Victorian and Edwardian benefactors.

This livestream will be broadcast on Zoom, and all ticket holders will receive a link to view on the morning of the event. If you have not received your link by noon on the day of the event, please contact membershipevents@vam.ac.uk. The event is being recorded and all ticket holders will also receive a link to view within a week after the event.