Victoria & Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse

The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site

Let them eat cake: V&A to stage first UK show on Marie Antoinette

Other blockbuster exhibitions at the museum next year will focus on luxury brand Cartier, ancient Egypt and the pioneering work done by disabled people in the world of design

V&A provenance expert heads to Art Institute of Chicago

Jacques Schuhmacher, who worked on several key restitution cases at the London museum, has taken up the role of executive director of provenance research

V&A beats Met to acquire medieval ivory sculpture of Christ for £2m

The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year

UK general election 2024: what art world figures want from the new Labour government

After a landslide victory for the Labour party, we asked museum directors, artists and art historians what they hoped the new political era could mean for culture

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Taylor Swift costume trail to wind through the galleries of the V&A

Sixteen 'looks' will be shown alongside instruments and music awards in a free display

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Julian Assange miniature goes on show (unofficially) at the V&A

Hand-painted portraits of the WikiLeaks founder and his wife Stella were smuggled into a display case at the London museum in April

Newly identified William Kent chairs—discovered in a Wiltshire Church—go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

The two internationally important chairs have been acquired for the reopening of the institution's Founder’s Galleries

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A snapshot of Rocket Man at the V&A

A sneak peek into the mammoth photo collection of Elton John and David Furnish

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Obsessed with Taylor Swift or Tufting? London’s V&A museum wants you

Institution wants to sign up superfans in five trendy areas including Emojis, Crocs and Drag

V&A aims to outflank the Met over £2m ivory

An export licence has now been deferred a second time to allow the UK museum to raise funds

British Museum and V&A to lend looted gold objects to Ghana

The 32 items held in the collections of the two UK museums were taken during wars in the 19th century

V&A Dundee cuts major shows to one a year as costs soar

The move is part of a series of measures to counter the impact of rising inflation and the cost of living crisis

V&A and the Met in tug-of-war over £2m medieval ivory

The 12th-century walrus ivory sculpture represents “one of the most culturally and aesthetically significant objects” the UK government’s reviewing committee has handled in the past five years

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Fashion off: Naomi Campbell and Barbie to have major London shows

They will each take the spotlight at a South Kensington museum next summer

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Owen Jones, a pioneer of 19th-century ornamentation

An incisive study of the influential designer responsible for the V&A’s ‘Oriental Court’ in the 1860s

British Museum thefts: Mark Jones named interim director of the British Museum

The former V&A director was keeper of coins and medal at the embattled London institution

Unveiling the complicated life of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel

Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition will touch upon her dark past as well as her groundbreaking designs

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Netflix LGBTQ+ drama Heartstopper goes to the Louvre—or does it?

While gay romance Red, White & Royal Blue heats up at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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Charting the transformation of British studio ceramics

This comprehensive catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection from 1900 to now is a joy to behold

‘This is about celebrating everyone’: London's V&A opens new Thomas J Price exhibition

The display includes a version of a sculpture that sparked debate in the Netherlands last month

Young V&A accused of removing trans-affirming books and poster from display

Former employees of the newly reopened London museum have joined a chorus of criticism over the removal of materials related to trans rights and queer identities

The kids are alright: newly opened Young V&A aims to be an evolutionary museum for children

Three years in the making, the new satellite of the Victoria and Albert museum has been created “with, not for” its audience—and could now act as a template for other museums.

Tristram Hunt: The Young V&A embraces Generation Alpha

The new Young V&A, opening 1 July, will "build cultural confidence in the capital’s most disadvantaged borough", writes the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

Victoria and Albert Museum's ambitious east London storehouse is finally complete

The Art Newspaper goes on an exclusive tour around the building which will open to the public in 2025

Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre

Seven dedicated galleries will now exhibit the full range and depth of the museum world’s oldest photography collection

Greatest hits of Asia Pacific Triennial to tour to London's V&A in 2026

The exhibition is being co-produced with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, home of the flagship Brisbane festival

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Keeping it real—fashion supremo Erdem Moralıoğlu is fascinated by museum conservation

The designer consulted restorers at the National Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Britain for his latest collection

London to get free, permanent David Bowie display as Victoria and Albert Museum acquires archive

Costumes, albums, lyrics and videos from 80,000-strong collection will go on show at the V&A East Storehouse from 2025