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Fit for a Queen: Famous Marie Antoinette Breguet watch will travel to London for new...
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Fit for a Queen: Famous Marie Antoinette Breguet watch will travel to London for new... If you were a member of the French Royal Court in 1783, you would have witnessed the remarkable innovation that was hot air ballooning, with the first French flight taking place over the Palace of Versailles. While spectators marvelled at the unprecedented spectacle of the giant balloon above their heads, little did they realise that another remarkable achievement was quietly put into motion.  
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South Indian gold-leaf paintings During a recent visit back home to Bangalore, I had the pleasure of exploring Kaash Space, a new centre uniting India’s craft traditions with cutting-edge contemporary design. Here I met resident artist Dr Vijay Siddramappa...
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Moving masterpieces: the journey of the Raphael Cartoons to the V&A If you were to select an object from the V&A’s collection that represents the relationship between art, war, and technology, you might be drawn to the plaster cast of Trajan’s Column in the Cast Courts,...
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Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy: A Champion of British Craftsmanship
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Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy: A Champion of British Craftsmanship Today marks the unveiling of a new temporary display in the Clockmakers’ Museum at the Science Museum, focussing on a key figure of 19th century British clockmaking, the royal clockmaker Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy.
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A window into Mughal craftsmanship: conservation of a C16th white marble jali On the 9th November a new major exhibition opened at the V&A: The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence. This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary creative output of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (about...
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V&A Staff Photographs: War Portraits In this November blog, I am using the V&A Archive to investigate the stories of sixteen members of V&A staff who lost their lives during the First World War.
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Introducing Versailles: Science and Splendour
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Introducing Versailles: Science and Splendour Think of the word ‘Versailles’, and science probably doesn’t spring to mind. First and foremost, it conjures the image of an imposing French palace: a site of material luxury, courtly entertainment, and political intrigue.
As the heart of French royal and ...
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The National Archives Welcomes New Board Members
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The National Archives Welcomes New Board Members  
The National Archives welcomes the appointment of two new non-executive Board members, Lopa Patel MBE and Nigel Baker. They replace Baroness Ros Scott of Needham Market and Mark Richards who both step down on 30 December 2024 after highly ...
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Young V&A’s Design Competition Winner Meet Young V&A’s Design Competition Winner! The design competition brief was set by our summer Maker-Takeover Designers Batch.Works and Kibu.
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Myths & Muses: Queering the V&A Myths and Muses: Queering the V&A is a new film created by 10 young queer artists, supported by the V&A Young People’s team. The work invites viewers to follow mysterious characters on an intimate, reflective...
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Inspiring the scientists we need for tomorrow: The Environment Agency’s Careers Live collaboration
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Inspiring the scientists we need for tomorrow: The Environment Agency’s Careers Live collaboration Over three million visitors pass through the wonder-filled halls of the Science Museum every year.  They are wowed by the massive steam engines, intrigued by the development of medicine through the ages and entertained discovering how light can play tricks ...
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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 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.
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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. 
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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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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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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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