Kensington’s big three museums announce their reopening datesThe big three – the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A Museum have all announced the dates they will reopen following the lockdown.
See Sir Pindar’s Home in the V&A MuseumHanging from a wall in the V&A is a grandly decorated frontage from an old house – just the frontage floating eerily in the void.
Unique piece of buried treasure goes on display at the V&AThe UK’s only known example of a late Medieval jewelled cluster brooch, discovered by a metal detectorist in 2017 has gone on display in the V&A Museum.
The V&A looks at the story of the swimming poolA corridor in the V&A museum has been filled with photos and drawings from the golden age of lidos and swimming pools.
Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room ReimaginedA room in the V&A at the moment contains a decaying replica of one of the most famous interior designs of the late 19th century.
V&A exhibition looks at the Theatre StageAs much as the play itself and the actors, one of the dominant features of a play or musical is the stage design, and an exhibition is currently looking at that aspect of the stage performance.
Last chance to see the Raphael cartoons for a long timeThis year marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, and oddly, the V&A has decided to close it’s Raphael Court for most of the year.
Exhibition – Beatrix Potter’s Art: ‘drawn with design’A corridor in the V&A Museum is lined with small pencil drawings, showing a young Beatrix Potter experimenting with the ideas which would form her later books.
Early porcelain head goes on display at the V&AAn exceptionally rare porcelain sculpture, made in London in the 1740s, and rediscovered in a French flea market has gone on display in the V&A.
Photos of 1980s-90s London theatre go on displayTowards the end of the Cold War, a Czech photographer came to London, and his photos are now on display in the V&A museum.
The V&A explores the future of food productionOf all the great achievements of the 20th century, food has to be one of the greatest — not just the abundance of it, but how prices today are a fraction of what they used to cost. But at what cost to the environment?
An unexpected corridor in the V&A MuseumA long wood lined corridor that’s not on the map contains a rather charming gallery of actors and other artistic sorts.
Queen Victoria’s sapphire and diamond coronet goes on displayIn this the 200th anniversary of the births of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the V&A museum has put Queen Victoria’s famous coronet on display after it was saved from being sold overseas.
V&A puts Elton John into Room 101Room 101 in the V&A has been refurbished and is now half of a space given over to the museum’s photography collection.
You can now stand inside Trajan’s ColumnEver since it was built in 1873, there’s been a tantalizing door inside the V&A Museum that normally locked, and only very occasionally opened — but now is open all the time.
Salvador Dalí’s champagne lamps go on displayThe V&A says that it has acquired one of the most important examples of modern lighting ever designed in the UK, a joint creation of artist Salvador Dalí and his most important British patron, Edward James.
When plywood and plastic ruled — at the V&AThere’s a room in the V&A that’s filled with more than the usual abundance of nostalgia, looking at domestic design in the post-war years.
Art in the Age of Computers at the V&A MuseumSince they were created, people have wondered if computers could create art, and now the V&A has an exhibition of some of the results of that pondering.
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