Robberies in museums are any museum curator’s nightmare. And this is unfortunately what happened on 20 th November 2024 when three gold boxes from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection were ...

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This Summer the V&A will reveal its new spaces on Exhibition Road. We will regularly be sharing news leading up to the opening in July. If you’ve visited the museum... Toureen Group are a construction ...

Join author Catherine Ostler in conversation with fellow historian Simon Sebag Montefiore for a true story of Impressionist ...

Looking at five original masterworks in the V&A’s permanent collections, this tour spans five hundred years of European sculpture, from the 15th century to the modern era.

Designed by Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey, the five-storey V&A East Museum offers welcoming spaces to socialise, as well as major exhibitions, festivals, commissions, installations, live ...

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Mystical, enigmatic and potent, the power of tarot cards comes from their curious imagery. Today best known for divination and fortune-telling, it was originally a card game played for fun. Tarot’s ...

This humble-looking wooden chair has become a 20th-century design classic – much revered, reproduced and replicated. But its fascinating origin story is often untold, and its designer, Eulie Chowdury, ...

The Karun Thakar Fund has awarded a Project Grant to Anitha N., a community-based art practitioner, curator, and researcher based in Bangalore, Karnataka, in support of her project Mosaics of Cloth: ...

Mannequins play a significant role in the staging of V&A fashion exhibitions. As the foundation onto which bespoke body padding and underpinnings can be applied, selecting the right mannequin is ...

This blog was co-authored by Becky Knott (Lead Curator CRC, V&A East) and Holly Harris (Project Co-ordinator, V&A East). The last few months have been a very busy period for the V&A East team as we ...