Download our free lesson plans for EYFS, Key Stage 1 and 2 students (ages 4 – 11) covering many areas of our collections and varied exhibition programme.

Tatreez is the Arabic word for the elaborate hand embroidery found on Palestinian dress. Renowned for its beauty and complexity, tatreez is characterised by remarkable regional diversity. In the late ...

Piccolpasso's treatise 'Li tre libri dell'arte del vasaio' (The three books of the potter's art) is an extremely important manuscript – the only one of its kind – that explains and illustrates the ...

Legendary Russian goldsmith, Carl Fabergé, fostered an Anglo-Russian relationship which saw the opening of a London branch in 1903, the only one outside Russia.

The history of wallpaper is a history of pattern, design, and a fascinating record of technological ingenuity and changes in patterns of consumption.

Summer Festival Join us for a weekend of activities as we launch the Young V&A Summer season!

Step into the creative worlds of David Bowie – artist, disruptor, icon. Explore the costumes, sounds, lyrics, and sketches that mapped his many reinventions and use his radical imagination as a ...

Eleri Lynn, author of the V&A book 'Underwear: Fashion in Detail', tells the story of shape-wear: from the steel and whalebone engineering of Victorian and Edwardian corsetry, to the breast-flattening ...

What's on Exhibitions, displays, courses, talks – plus events for V&A Members. See What's on at the V&A venues, and online.

The V&A is the custodian an important collection of rare textile fragments, ceramic and Buddhist art objects, dating between 200 BC and 1200 AD.

Lolita fashion emerged in Japan during the 1990s as a radical form of street style born out of the Japanese taste for Hello Kitty cuteness.

News, articles and stories from the V&ACeramics has been an important part of Stoke’s heritage, but our museum shows that it’s part of the area’s creative future too. So many people have a Wedgwood ...