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Come to our Library and Archive Discovery Day on November 1st!   Since our majestic reading rooms opened in 1884, the National Art Library and the Museum Archives have been proud of offering and encouraging free, universal access, with our collections, spaces and staff at the service of the widest possible ...
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A Moving Experience: Olympia to the Olympic Park How do you move over 250,000 objects, 350,000 library books and nearly 1,000 archives from one side of London to the other, when no one has attempted such a feat before? The short answer is that you plan the project ...
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Lost and Found Yōkai: meet the artists part 3 Next week will be the last chance to see Young V&A’s first major creative installation, inspired by our current exhibition Japan: Myths to Manga.   Lost and Found Yōkai draws from traditions of yōkai
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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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Join our User Advisory Group
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Join our User Advisory Group Would you like to represent the views of archive users and help to improve The National Archives’ services? If you are a regular archive user, then we would love to hear from you.
We are seeking new voluntary representatives to join ...
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The power of spaces to transform: refugees’ stories of change shaped through fashion This post was written by:Dr Francesco Mazzarella, Reader in Design for Social Change at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UALDr Seher Mirza, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UAL Participants in ‘Fashioning Stories of...
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Hidden gems in the Jameel Gallery The Jameel Gallery at the V&A holds around 400 treasures from across the Islamic Middle East, produced between the 8th century and our own time.  We invited four people with a strong link to art...
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Lost and Found Yōkai: meet the artists part 2 we’re spotlighting our next round of artists whose work is available to view as part of our Lost and Found Yōkai installation, which is free to visit at Young V&A until 1 September. 
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YVA Design Club launch products for the Young V&A shop Young V&A's Design Club have recently worked with the museum team and designers to design and create new products for the Young V&A shop!
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Young V&A wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 Young V&A wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024! I am delighted to share the wonderful news that after its first year of opening, Young V&A has been awarded this incredible accolade!
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Newly accredited archive service
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Newly accredited archive service Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that Christ Church Archives, Oxford, has been awarded accredited status for the first time.
All accredited archive services must apply again for accreditation six ...
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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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Major National Lottery investment to unlock UK’s archives
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Major National Lottery investment to unlock UK’s archives  
A £5m investment into the archives sector will unlock collections across the UK and build the skills and resilience needed to care for them into the future.
The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust and the Wolfson Foundation are delighted to announce ...
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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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How open source air quality data is helping inform Londoners about the air we breathe
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How open source air quality data is helping inform Londoners about the air we breathe In 2023 an air quality sensor node measuring Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide in the air was installed outside the Science Museum by scientists from Imperial as part of the Mayor of London’s Breathe London Community Programme.
How is ...
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Pre-election period
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Pre-election period The Civil Service has now entered the pre-election period. The National Archives is a government department and during this time, our website and communications channels will be quieter than usual and many activities will be paused until a Government is ...
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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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