The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a small but consequential fragment of internet history, not an object in the traditional sense, but a reconstructed moment from the early days of online life. In a move that says as much about how museums are changing...
The V&A's new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens to the public on 31 May 2025. It follows 10 years of planning and extensive audience consultation, with input from V&A East’s Youth Collective. Designed by world-renowned...
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London unveils its upcoming blockbuster exhibition, The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, on 9th November 2024. This monumental display will highlight the lavish artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire’s “Golden Age,”...
Young V&A was announced as the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 in a gala ceremony at the National Gallery in London last night. Dr Helen Charman, Director of Young V&A, accepted the prestigious £120,000 prize—the most significant museum award in the...
In a strategic move to navigate financial challenges, the V&A Dundee, the Scottish counterpart of the renowned Victoria and Albert Museum, is set to reduce its significant art exhibitions by half. The decision, outlined in a recent report submitted to the Scottish...
The V&A museum in Dundee has removed all signs associated with the disgraced Sackler name. This follows a similar move by the V&A in Kensington last October. The museum received a £500,000 donation from the Sackler Trust in September 2018. Signage...
David Bowie Archive Gifted To The V&A - Raphael Flaget Madonna Could Be The Real Deal - Tim Whiten Awarded 2022 Gershon Iskowitz Prize A major gift and donation has been accepted to help the V&A (Victoria And Albert Museum) secure David Bowie's archive for the...
About one-third of the way into Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance we encounter a ‘Virgin and Child’ tondo by Giovanni Pisano, a startlingly naturalistic image in which the Virgin emerges out from the frame of the tondo towards us while the infant Christ also...
The V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) has decided to drop their contentious ties with the Sackler family by renaming spaces within the Kensington site. The decision came about after the US owned family drugs business was found partly responsible for the addiction...