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Today, the V&A announces The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, a major new curatorial programme to support women in photography. The Project, funded by Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and the Parasol Foundation Trust, encompasses a new curatorial post alongside acquisitions, research, education and public displays, aiming to foreground and sustain women’s practice in contemporary... Continue Reading →
The V&A has announced that several significant costumes including an iconic drag costume from the musical Kinky Boots (2012), Eurovision winner Sandie Shaw’smini dress and the UK’s first ballet pointe shoes for a variety of skin tones by Freed / Ballet Black have gone on display as part of a major refresh in the V&A Theatre and Performance Galleries, due for completion... Continue Reading →
The Museum of London has acquired an ensemble from London fashion designer Tihara Smith’s ‘Windrush collection’ along with a suit owned by her grandfather. Both pieces, and oral histories recorded for the museum by Tihara, her mother and her grandfather have been made available to explore on the Museum of London website to mark Windrush Day 2021. ... Continue Reading →
This July the Museum of London Docklands will open a new free display, Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place, in its London, Sugar & Slavery gallery. The exhibit will draw on collaborative community collecting to explore the central role food plays in Black entrepreneurship and identity in South East London. Food is central to what it means... Continue Reading →
The Museum of London is pleased to announce that it has acquired the well-known sign erected by ZSL London Zoo on their Giraffe House in April 2020. It has been collected as part of the museum’s ongoing Collecting COVID initiative. The giant, light-up, blue wooden sign featuring two red hearts and white ‘NHS’ lettering was... Continue Reading →
Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”“No” said Alice. “I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.”“It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from” said the Queen. The V&A will immortalise Heston Blumenthal’s iconic Mock Turtle soup in the first-ever... Continue Reading →
The V&A has unveiled a first look at the newly refurbished Raphael Court – home to the Raphael Cartoons – following a landmark renovation in 2020 to mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death. Together with a new interpretive approach, the refreshed gallery will transform the way museum visitors experience the Cartoons, lent to the... Continue Reading →
After five months of temporary closure, the Museum of London and the Museum of London Docklands plan to open their doors on Wednesday 19 May 2021, depending on government guidance, and welcome visitors once again. The Museum of London is pleased to announce that the exclusive display, Dub London: Bassline of a City, celebrating dub reggae music and culture... Continue Reading →
Following a year of stop-start closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the V&A is delighted to announce that it will reopen its doors to visitors on Wednesday 19 May 2021, pending final confirmation from the government. With over 200,000 objects, six floors and seven miles of gallery space, all of the museum’s collection galleries will... Continue Reading →
Opening this November, the V&A announces Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution, the first major exhibition devoted to the international prominence of the legendary Russian goldsmith and the importance of his little-known London branch. With a focus on Fabergé’s Edwardian high society clientele, the exhibition will shine a light on his triumphs in Britain as... Continue Reading →
