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  V&A Secret Seekers

  Queen Victoria, William Morris, Jim the Dog and their friends will help families discover little-known…
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  Building the Museum

  The Victoria and Albert Museum was founded with a mission: to educate designers, manufacturers and the…
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  Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli

  artists associated with the Aesthetic Movement, including Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris…
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   V&A trail: Architectural wonders

  Victoria and Albert's initialsIn 1899, Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for the new buildings…
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  A grand entrance on Cromwell Road

  Included are luminaries of the highest order – Millais, Constable, Turner, Morris, Chippendale, Wedgwood…

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  Lunchtime Lecture: Christopher Dresser and the V&A

  V&A South Kensington

  Max Donnelly is Curator of Furniture and Woodwork 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum.…

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  Council of the Royal College of Art, a member of the Court of Imperial College, President of the William Morris…

From the Blog

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  Experience the stories behind the books at the NAL

  Jen Reeves, Librarian, showing a mid century photo book © Victoria and Albert Museum Richard Espley…
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  Daily devotion – Hanuman, the Hindu demi-god

  . © Victoria and Albert Museum In Hinduism, it is not uncommon for gods to appear as incarnations…
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  The Victorian ecosystem of collecting, and its legacy

  CAI.605 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London The first exhibition at the BFAC was held just one year…
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  Designing for protest and sustainability

  Credit: Gareth Morris As a studio we became interested in XR’s tactics of direct action, using disruption…
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  Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone – a new exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  . © Victoria & Albert Museum, London.…