Backstage at the Museum—The Irrepressible Mrs. Enthoven

This special gallery talk explores the V&A's Theatre and Performance collection and the remarkable woman who founded it.

Special event
  • Saturday, 27 April 2019 at
  • Past event
+44 (0)20 7942 2000

  • Meeting Point, Grand Entrance

  • Free event

Backstage at the Museum—The Irrepressible Mrs. Enthoven photo

Meet Mrs Gabrielle Enthoven, OBE, nicknamed ‘the theatrical encyclopedia', who donated her extensive collection of 80,000 playbills, engravings, photographs, manuscripts and books to us in the 1920s. Thanks to her petitions, the Theatre and Performance collection was founded at the V&A in 1924.

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