Features

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  Constable's watercolour sketches

  sturgeon fish), which is painted over the top of the drawing with the addition of mica (a silicate mineral…
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  DISRUPT: critical conversations on videogames

  by Mattie Brice Black Women are Already Superheroes by Sidney Fussell Just Making Things and Being Alive…
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  Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics

  Dr Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A (Chair) Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and author Sultan Sooud…
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  An A–Z of metalwork

  This was 17th-century CGI: water flowing into this dish under soft light brings the whole scene alive…
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  Jameel Prize: Moving Images 

  open, community museum which reflects diverse social and cultural identities and the experiences of minorities…

Objects

What's On

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  In Focus Tour: Pietre Dure

  of pietre dure objects collected by Sir Arthur and Rosalinde Gilbert in this guided tour by Curator Alice…
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  Lunchtime Lecture: The Jewish heritage of the V&A

  V&A South Kensington

  Join Alice Minter to finally bring to light the essential role played by these private contributions…
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  Lunchtime Lecture: Jewish Collectors and their contribution to the V&A's collections

  Join our curator Alice Minter to explore how Jewish collectors and donors have impacted the V&A collections…
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  In Focus Tour: Concealed Histories

  V&A South Kensington

  Join V&A curator Alice Minter on a tour of the pioneering special display ‘Concealed Histories’, which…
• Past Event

  In Focus Tour: Concealed Histories

  V&A South Kensington

  Join V&A curators Jacques Schuhmacher and Alice Minter on a tour of the pioneering special display ‘Concealed…

About us and our work

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  Culture in Crisis: Preservation by Design

  Jacques is joined in the discussion by Alice Minter, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection Curator,…

From the Blog

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  Blog Post

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

  B.17-2016 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London We invite submissions of 20-minute papers that take…
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  Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone – a new exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

  Once we’d gathered enough initial information about our objects, curators Alice Minter, Sophie Morris…
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  Portuguese royal silver in the Gilbert Collection

  One afternoon, I joined curators Alice Minter and Sophie Morris to examine some of the early pieces in…
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  BREAKING NEWS! Henry Cole’s beloved Jim identified

  As part of her own ‘digging’, I was contacted by Alice MacDonnell, a teacher of art-based history and…
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  Reconstructing the India Museum experience: some early personal visitor accounts

  gaze with surprise and wonder (…) at the proofs they send us of their unaccountable perseverance in minute…