Tag: V&A
V&A director Martin Roth to leave the museum this autumn following Brexit vote
In a summer when the V&A was named Art Fund Museum of the Year its director Martin Roth has announced that he will be stepping down following recent interviews with a German broadcaster pointing to his disillusionment over Britain’s vote… Read more
The Victoria and Albert Museum named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016
As Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016 the V&A takes the crown from last year’s winner The Whitworth art Gallery at the University of Manchester and can boast to being… Read more
Engineering the World: V&A to stage retrospective of revolutionary engineer Ove Arup
The exhibition, part of the V&A’s Engineering Season will tell the untold stories behind some of the world’s most famous buildings including the Sydney Opera House and the Centre Pompidou in Paris as the V&A states the first ever major retrospective on… Read more
V&A receives £1.75m grant to launch Research Institute
The grant will support a five-year programme of activities that it says will take the museum’s thriving research culture into a new phase, making its collections and expertise more visible and connecting them more fully with both academic partners and… Read more
Director of National Media Museum defends relocation of RPS collection
Jo Quinton-Tulloch, director of the National Media Museum was speaking at a Bradford Council scrutiny committee meeting yesterday organised to examine plans to relocate around 400,000 objects to the Victoria and Albert museum in Kensington and said it was “the… Read more
V&A partners with Chinese enterprise group to launch world-class design museum
The collaboration, the first of its kind between a UK museum and a Chinese partner, comprises the provision of professional advice and training to help CMSK establish and develop a world class design museum; the concept, development and design of… Read more
V&A to create world’s leading collection on the art of photography
The V&A is planning to create the world’s most extensive collection on the art of photography by relocating more than 400,000 objects from SMG’s three-million-strong photography collection, held at the National… Read more
V&A Museum designed exhibition features at this week’s World Economic Forum
V&A Museum designed exhibition features at this week’s World Economic Forum With the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum, which opens today – Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution – as context, the exhibition presents six scenarios where the radical… Read more
The £12.5m transformation of the V&A’s Europe 1600-1815 Galleries
When architectural practice ZMMA were chosen to redesign the V&A’s Europe Galleries in 2011 they found the 1909 architecture of Sir Aston Webb had been covered up by a 1970s refit, leaving lowered ceilings, covered up windows and a notable… Read more
V&A Museum’s Europe 1600-1815 Galleries almost complete as fundraising matched
The installation of nearly 1,100 objects is nearing completion as the V&A prepares to open a new suite of galleries next month dedicated to the arts of living in Europe between 1600 and 1815. The unveiling is a major part… Read more