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Information Age: 10 years on
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Information Age: 10 years on 2014 may have been the year Taylor Swift released 1989, Ellen DeGeneres took that epic selfie at the Oscars, and Uber Eats launched a pilot food delivery service, but something just as exciting happened at the Science Museum: the Information Age ...
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The Linda McKnight Archive – Recognising an Overlooked Craft The V&A Theatre and Performance Archives strives to reflect the breadth of creativity of performing arts in the UK, encompassing diverse forms from ballet to circus, and capturing the work of practitioners in all aspects
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Introducing Liam Charles, V&A Innovate Judge 2024 – 25 We’re delighted to announce that Liam Charles will be a judge for our V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2024 – 25.   Liam Charles is TV presenter who is well known for his time as a contestant on the Great British Bake Off, and now ...
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Watercolours of Industrial landscapes – grey, grimy but gorgeous The V&A’s collection has many captivating and powerful watercolours that depict industrial landscapes of factories, quarries and canals.
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How to write a winning museum job application Our top tips for writing a successful museum job application, broken in to three key steps.
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We’re hiring! V&A East’s locally-rooted recruitment ‘Are there any jobs going?’ Yes! One of the great joys of being part of the V&A East project has been working towards growing our team, and we have reached that point! As we move...
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Artist Xanthe Somers on ceramics, Zimbabwe and postcolonialism London-based ceramics sculptor Xanthe Somers is an artist whose creative journey is deeply intertwined with her Zimbabwean heritage. With its vibrant glaze and bright cherries, her stoneware vessel, ‘Fruits of the Forefathers’, invites us to...
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The Clipper Mission: Journey to the icy water world of Europa
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The Clipper Mission: Journey to the icy water world of Europa Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first one to look at Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, through his telescope in 1610. Interest has only grown through time and visiting spacecraft have been studying Europa for over 50 years.
Its icy ...
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Celebrating the pioneering doctors of the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW)
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Celebrating the pioneering doctors of the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) Women have been practicing medicine in Britain for thousands of years. Through the Middle Ages, wise-women or healers treated diseases and other ailments with herbal remedies. They also practiced midwifery – assisting with childbirth – with the word itself coming ...
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Royal Flying Corps and Successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards Released
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Royal Flying Corps and Successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards Released The National Archives, in partnership with Forces War Records, the leading military family history website from Ancestry®, has launched a digital collection of Royal Flying Corps and successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards. 
The collection contains almost 12,000 ...
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New initiative to improve access to Holocaust-related collections
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New initiative to improve access to Holocaust-related collections We have become a founding member of EHRI-UK – the national body representing Holocaust-related collections in the United Kingdom. The other founding members are the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London and the ...
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The National Archives to create centre of excellence for heritage science and conservation research
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The National Archives to create centre of excellence for heritage science and conservation research  
We have been awarded £1.3m to upgrade our analytical research laboratory creating a centre of excellence available to collections throughout the UK and beyond.
The award is part of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new Research Infrastructure for Conservation ...
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Saul Nassé presents first Archive Service Accreditation certificate
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Saul Nassé presents first Archive Service Accreditation certificate Our Chief Executive and Keeper, Saul Nassé, has presented his first Archive Service Accreditation certificate since joining The National Archives in the summer.
Saul presented the certificate to Westminster City Archives, the local authority archive for the City of Westminster, who ...
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A refreshed Flight gallery looks to the skies
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A refreshed Flight gallery looks to the skies You are not starting from scratch and must instead work with what is already on display. So when we decided our ever-popular Flight gallery needed a bit of a revamp the team had to work carefully, cleverly and quickly to ...
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Happy Birthday Louise Brown!
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Happy Birthday Louise Brown! However, her start in life was far more extraordinary – Louise Brown was the first baby to be born after being conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). An updated display in the Who Am I? gallery showcases Louise’s story and ...
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Why most of us are right-handed, and prefer to view faces on the left
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Why most of us are right-handed, and prefer to view faces on the left Many creatures across the animal kingdom prefer to use one side of the body over another, just as humans do: 90 per cent of people using their right hands as their ‘write hands.’ 
Every person should have a 50-50 chance of ...
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The Future of Spaceflight 
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The Future of Spaceflight  I’m going to speculate about the far future of spaceflight.
But let’s start with the near term. The Apollo programme – humans’ first footprints on another world – was an epochal event.  The Apollo astronauts were heroes – they accepted high ...
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Galleries that inspire
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Galleries that inspire National museums such as the five that make up the Science Museum Group, which I’m privileged to Chair, are in the fortunate position of receiving some Government funding. It is critical to our responsibilities in caring for the national collections ...
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Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
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… Continua a leggere →
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Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
Il Blog del Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale
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 fruizione di realtà… Continua a leggere →
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