Legend has it that after Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, she picked up a shard of broken mirror to fix her makeup. This fearless moment embodies both the beauty ...

Led by East London based artist and designer Daniel Heath, this three-hour practical session invites you to draw creative inspiration from specially selected objects from the archive. Focusing on ...

Join an expert V&A Guide for an introduction to the V&A's history and a selection of treasures from across the museum's outstanding collections. Tours depart from Blavatnik Hall on Exhibition Road and ...

Members will be guided through the museum’s permanent collections in both the South Asia Gallery and British Galleries. Through these, you will discover how the aesthetic principles visible across ...

The talk will share new findings on the complex provenance of an Akan drum—one of the oldest African-American objects extant ...

Treat yourself or a loved one with the gift of Membership: enjoy free access to all exhibitions, access to our Members’ Room, priority booking to evening talks, and much more.

Join costume designer Anna Robbins for a look at how she has recreated and reinterpreted the styles of the period for the ...

Join costume designer Anna Robbins for a look at how she has recreated and reinterpreted the styles of the period for the final instalment of the much-loved series, in advance of its cinematic finale.

Studio pottery refers to ceramics made by individual artist-potters in their own workshops, typically by hand.

Clare Rose Clare Rose is a dress historian who investigates the relationship between garments, the documents used to sell them, and images of fashionable people. Trained as a museum curator, she has ...

The V&A has an unrivalled collection of costume designs for theatre, opera, dance, circus, pantomime and film covering 400 years of the artform. Taking inspiration from the museum’s earliest costume ...

Using a running stitch, workshop leader Rowena Luke-King will introduce you to the different gathering techniques used in Silk Ribbon Embroidery to make tiny flowers. She will show how to attach the ...