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The Museum of London is pleased to announce that it has acquired a ceremonial chain created by Councillor Philip Normal, Mayor of Lambeth, as part of its ongoing Collecting COVID initiative. Normal made the chain, or collar, for his virtual appointment to Mayor of Lambeth on 22 April 2020 during the first national lockdown. Created... Continue Reading →
Today, the Museum of London is announcing the acquisition of 13 Tweets from Londoners shared during the initial lockdown, in a strand of its ongoing Collecting COVID project entitled Going Viral. This follows on from research published in August 2020 by Twitter UK called History in the Tweeting, which identified seven behaviours that emerged or... Continue Reading →
Today, the V&A unveils a host of new digital content about the Raphael Cartoons for everyone to enjoy from home, ahead of the reopening of the transformed Raphael Court to the public after the latest national lockdown lifts. Available on the V&A website, the new online offering provides those based both in the UK and... Continue Reading →
Today the V&A reveals plans to stage a major exhibition celebrating the irresistible creativity, ingenuity and unstoppable global impact of contemporary African fashions. Opening June 2022, the exhibition will celebrate the vitality and innovation of this vibrant scene, as dynamic and varied as the African continent itself. Over 250 objects, drawn from the personal archives... Continue Reading →
On Saturday, the V&A will open Bags: Inside Out, the UK’s most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the ultimate accessory. From designer handbags to despatch boxes, vanity cases to military rucksacks, the exhibition explores our longstanding fascination with the bag. Featuring innovative designs from Mulberry to Karl Lagerfeld, bags carried by Jane Birkin to Sarah Jessica... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 has brought about many changes to Londoners’ lives, not just in the day to day, but also in relation to how we sleep and dream. According to a survey conducted by King’s College London and Ipsos MORI in June 2020, the anxiety, stress and worry brought on by the global COVID-19 crisis is not... Continue Reading →
Loyle Carner, BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominated rapper, Ade Adepitan MBE, TV Presenter and Paralympic Medalist, and Roma Agrawal MBE, Structural Engineer, whose projects include London’s iconic Shard building, are today announced as judges of V&A Innovate’s National Schools Challenge. V&A Innovate – the museum’s flagship learning programme for 11-14-year-olds – sets young people... Continue Reading →
The Museum of London is pleased to announce that it will be collecting one of Arsenal’s iconic Black Lives Matter tribute shirts worn by captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang during the 2020-21 Premier League season. The striker will donate his shirt to the museum as part of its ongoing Collecting COVID project which is also documenting the... Continue Reading →
Through an innovative new partnership, the V&A and HTC VIVE Arts invite audiences from around the world on a mind-bending trip into the wonderful world of Wonderland. Coinciding with the release of tickets on sale for the museum’s eagerly anticipated exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser – opening 27 March 2021 – an immersive virtual reality... Continue Reading →
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ever Glastonbury Festival, which took place on 19 September 1970, the V&A announces a new project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to create an online database that will provide unrivalled access to the past, present and future of Glastonbury Festival. As a... Continue Reading →
