Victoria & Albert Museum
Remembering Michael Archer, member of a golden age of curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum, who has died, aged 85
For more than 20 years, Archer enriched the ceramics department of the V&A with important acquisitions and research on glass, pottery and the tin-glazed earthenware on which he was a world authority
Victoria and Albert Museum announces three new trustees including right-wing commentator Zewditu Gebreyohanes
‘Anti-woke’ activist appointed along with Rosalind Blakesley and Rusty Elvidge
‘It’s time to ditch the culture war rhetoric’
The next UK prime minister should abandon the war on "woke" and return to nuanced debate
India and Pakistan turn 75: exhibitions on independence and partition to see around the world
From Kolkata to Chicago, here are 11 shows that deal with the many histories of nationhood and freedom in the subcontinent
London museums close galleries as temperatures reach record high
Staff union claims it pressured the V&A and British Museum to take special measures
Peter Brook, a giant of international theatre whose stage work moved in sympathy with the visual arts, has died, aged 97
Brook's influential "white-cube" 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his epic 1985 realisation of the Sanskrit epic The Mahābhārata find echoes in art history
Victoria & Albert Museum director says it is time to change UK law that stops museums from ‘disposing’ of works
Tristram Hunt aims to start a “conversation” about the act next year, arguing that some items should be allowed to be restituted or deaccessioned
Victoria and Albert Museum returns—and reattaches—a third-century marble head of Greek god taken from Turkey
The head of Eros—which has been held by the London institution for 90 years—has been reunited with its sarcophagus at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum
Historic Beirut house damaged in city's devastating port explosion is reconstructed at Victoria & Albert Museum in London
The work charts an architect’s personal crusade to restore one of the finest remaining examples of Ottoman-Venetian homes in Old Beirut.
Activist group’s film projection on Victoria and Albert Museum façade raises concerns about trustees’ politics
The ethics of the South Kensington museum are in question after hosting Conservative Party fundraiser
Russian Fabergé treasures from V&A show still being held in UK because of sanctions over Ukraine
Among the pieces are the first Fabergé Egg and a golden cigarette box made for the Rothschild family, which were both acquired by the oligarch Viktor Vekselberg
Digitising the Bayeux Tapestry: Victoria and Albert Museum will work with French city to research famous Medieval work
London museum signs memorandum of understanding with Bayeux city officials to develop curatorial and scientific exchange
Cambodia urges UK museums to investigate and return looted treasures allegedly handled by dealer Douglas Latchford
British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum now under scrutiny of Cambodian government
What will happen to sanctioned Russian oligarch’s Fabergé treasure, now V&A's show has closed?
The return of the Easter Egg on loan to the UK from Viktor Vekselberg’s Panamanian company could well now be complicated
UK sanctions Russian oligarch behind major Fabergé egg loan to V&A exhibition
Ukrainian-born mining billionaire Viktor Vekselberg lent the first Imperial Easter egg to the London museum through his foundation
Saving the art of Palestinian textiles: West Bank museum and V&A join forces to create new conservation studio
Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes
Back to normal: London's Victoria and Albert Museum resumes pre-Covid opening hours
From next month, the institution will be open for seven days a week again and timed tickets for general admission will also be dropped
What will happen to Russia's treasures on loan in London and Paris?
Imperial Fabergé eggs and Impressionist masterpieces are some of the works currently in shows in Europe
Business as usual for European museums operating in China, despite genocide ruling
A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it
Big money, new collectors: the low-down on the New York auctions
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
In returning an ancient gold ewer to Turkey, the UK's Gilbert Trust made the right decision
The Anatolian artefact had been on long-term loan to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, although not on display. Restitution is a complex issue, but in this case it was the right move
Ancient gold ewer returned to Turkey after V&A expert links it to illicit antiquities trade
The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum
Yinka Shonibare sculptures sold to fund fellowship for Black and POC curators at V&A East
It's time to "to grasp the nettle", says the museum's director Gus Casely-Hayford of the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship
London’s Museum of Childhood to be renamed the Young V&A following £13m renovation
East End institution will no longer cater to adults “revelling in nostalgia” and rather be focussed on those aged up to 14 years old
V&A's groundbreaking British design exhibition 75 years on—what can a post-pandemic UK learn from this historic show?
A prioritisation of design and a harnessing of public spirit are vital in the face of challenges posed by Brexit and Covid-19
South Korea's rapid rise to global pop cultural dominance will be explored in new Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition
Hallyu! The Korean Wave takes place in 2022 along with Beatrix Potter celebration and showcase of African fashion
One of us or one of them? A long view of the appointment of George Osborne as chair of the British Museum
The former chancellor's instalment echoes the selection of Lord Armstrong as chair of the V&A, which had serious consequences for the museum
Opening of London’s V&A East Museum delayed again because of pandemic
The Victoria and Albert Museum outpost is now due to open in 2025 but its open storage space is still on track for 2024
Cash-strapped museums unable to stop treasures from leaving UK
Export licences likely to be granted on Italian roundel and German reliquary as institutions struggle with the fallout of the pandemic
Visitor figures: how many people are actually returning to London museums post-lockdown?
We asked English institutions to provide figures for the four-week period from 17 May to gauge current demand