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Research

Research takes place across the V&A family of sites, undertaken by curators, conservators, scientists, learning and digital specialists, academic scholars, visiting fellows and many more. Led by the V&A Research Institute (VARI), our research activities develop new knowledge about our collections and inform museum practices. Here you can learn more about current projects and latest findings.

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Follow-on funding: resources and approaches

Georgian (Boss) Ladies and the obscure art of painting on velvet

Reconstructing the India Museum experience: some early personal visitor accounts

Ethics in Collaborative Research: mechanisms and principles

Evaluation resources

The power of spaces to transform: refugees’ stories of change shaped through fashion

Borrow, Adapt, Combine: Improvising Chinese landscape scenes in late seventeenth-century London

Is your networking not working?

Launching a new training and development programme for early career researchers

Now Open: Doctoral Placement applications

Tickets available – The Public Country House: ‘Treasure of Quiet Beauty’ or a Site for Public Histories?

Call for papers – ‘The V&A and its Jewish Heritage: Objects & Stories’

Digital design – Art Fund New Collecting Award

Who was the ‘monster king’?

Caring for our collections

Lacquer in the Americas

Is it possible for research to change museum practice? Reflections on research impact at the V&A

The India Museum Revisited

Torrijos and the tradition of Arabic epigraphy in Castilian architecture

Searching for dealers in the V&A’s East Asia collection

Open call for Artist Fellows with Bow Arts Trust