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Afro-Diasporic Collections Workshop: V&A National Art Library
Discover the richness of Global African heritage in a special workshop at the V&A National Art Library. Explore extraordinary highlights from the collection, including the library’s oldest African manuscript, an Egyptian text dated to 1300.
Are you aware of the diverse collection of books and related materials available to you within the V&A National Art Library?
Discover how earlier gaps in knowledge, and at times a lack of understanding, obscured these materials, and how the past fifty years have seen a deliberate effort to collect works by contemporary diverse artists and designers.
With guidance from specialist staff, you will explore rare books, Ethiopian manuscripts, archives, and catalogues, learning how to deepen your own research through the library’s comprehensive resources, and how to join and make use of the National Art Library.
A Notebook and examples of research materials are included.
Discover how earlier gaps in knowledge, and at times a lack of understanding, obscured these materials, and how the past fifty years have seen a deliberate effort to collect works by contemporary diverse artists and designers.
With guidance from specialist staff, you will explore rare books, Ethiopian manuscripts, archives, and catalogues, learning how to deepen your own research through the library’s comprehensive resources, and how to join and make use of the National Art Library.
A Notebook and examples of research materials are included.
