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V&A Illustration Awards 2024 – the shortlists! Explore the shortlisted entries for the 2024 V&A Illustration Awards.
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A chat with computer animation programmer: Paul Allen Newell For the display Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary, I completed research on the collection and archive of this fascinating collector and curator. A defining feature of her collecting was how broad i ...
Happy birthday, Matilde Montoya!
Happy birthday, Matilde Montoya! Born on 14 March 1859 in Mexico City, Mexico, Matilde Petra Montoya Lafragua was brought up as though an only child, following the death of her sister. 
Matilde Montoya. Source: Universidad Nacional A ...
Celebrating Women in Engineering on International Women’s Day
Celebrating Women in Engineering on International Women’s Day I’m Professor Larissa Suzuki and am thrilled to be a part of the engineering workforce. I’m based at UCL and also work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, plus hold a senior role in the tech industry ...
Frederika Davis THM/636/1/116 Royal Ballet – Swan Lake The Theatre and Performance Archive holds a large number of photographic collections, containing thousands of prints and negatives. But in more recent years, as ...
Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science
Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science Magnus Hirschfeld. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Magnus-Hirschfeld Gesellschaft
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868 – 1935) was a German Jewish doctor, sexologist and activist who f ...
Happy Alice Ball Day!
Happy Alice Ball Day! An Introduction to Hansen’s Disease 
Leprosy is a disease that has existed for at least 4,000 years, with symptoms recorded in writing as early as 600BC. In the past, the term “leprosy” was more broad ...
Experience the stories behind the books at the NAL I blogged back in December about our (then) upcoming Monday talk sessions. These have been held for the last six weeks and have been a great success. In the hope of tempting even more of you to come a ...
Did you know we have apprentices at the National Art Library? If you’ve visited the National Art Library (NAL)  over the last year, you may have spoken to one of four apprentices. Since October 2022 we’ve hosted the latest cohort of a series of apprentices, ...
Environmental Monitoring at the Science Museum
Environmental Monitoring at the Science Museum Conservation teams in museums take great care of collection objects: their job can involve cleaning objects to get them ready for an exhibition, carefully installing them in a gallery display, or cari ...
How to Get a Job in a Museum: Administrator Are you interested in a career in museums? V&A East Administrator Jasmine breaks down how she landed her role and shares her top early-careers jobs resources.
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The Karun Thakar Fund 2024 The Karun Thakar Fund offers one-time Project Grants of up to £5000 (£10,000 in exceptional circumstances) in support of projects focused on any aspect of Asian or African textiles or dress.
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Identity Through Objects: A Pakistani Spinning Wheel A 19th century Pakistani spinning wheel leads Haleema Ahmed her on a journey to uncover her family’s relationship to textiles.
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Wind turbine pioneers announced as winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Wind turbine pioneers announced as winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering At the ceremony last week, Lord Browne of Madingley, Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation, announced Britain’s Andrew Garrad and Denmark’s Henrik Stiesdal as the 2024 Laure ...
Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍: Clockwork Treasures from China’s Forbidden City now open
Zimingzhong 凝时聚珍: Clockwork Treasures from China’s Forbidden City now open Last week, the Science Museum opened a new exhibition featuring 23 resplendent mechanical clocks on loan from The Palace Museum in Beijing and never before displayed together in the UK. The exhibition ...
Why have we wired up this eighteenth-century commode? The V&A has teamed up with the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the Polish Academy of Sciences to work on innovative conservation techniques for monitoring objects. Acoustic emission monitor ...
Call for papers – ‘The V&A and its Jewish Heritage: Objects & Stories’ Jewish heritage – as manifest through collectors, objects and stories – has played a significant role in the development of the V&A’s collections. As well as a significant collection of Judaica (o ...
Le Lupe di Roma La Lupa Capitolina, conservata nei Musei Capitolini, è una scultura in bronzo del V sec. a.C., realizzata con tecnica della cera persa che raffigura una lupa che ha da poco partorito, come indicano ...
MUSEO DELLA REPUBBLICA ROMANA E DELLA MEMORIA GARIBALDINA Ormai da anni la Sovrintendenza Capitolina mette a disposizione dei cittadini e dei turisti spazi espositivi e collezioni d’arte ad entrata gratuita con l’intento di promuovere la conoscenza e la frui ...
MUSEO CASAL DE’ PAZZI Ormai da anni la Sovrintendenza Capitolina mette a disposizione dei cittadini e dei turisti spazi espositivi e collezioni d’arte ad entrata gratuita con l’intento di promuovere la conoscenza e la frui ...

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