A collection of objects representing the design identity of climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion have been acquired by the V&A in London. Continue reading
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New V&A Dundee greeted with praise and protest
Four years late and some £53million over budget, the V&A Museum of Design nonetheless opened to great fanfare and protest in Dundee on Saturday 15 September. Continue reading
Museum world mourns death of former V&A director
Tributes to the former director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Martin Roth, have poured in following the news of his passing on Sunday (6 August 2017). Roth died in Berlin aged 62 following a period of illness.
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Royal opening for V&A’s multimillion pound new gallery
Arriving at the opening of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Exhibition Road Quarter the Duchess of Cambridge mouthed “wow”.
The £54.5 million development designed by British architect Amanda Levete comprises the world’s first completely porcelain tiled public courtyard and a column-less underground exhibition space. A History of Art graduate, the Duchess was invited to tour the new spaces on Thursday afternoon (29 June) and unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark their opening. Continue reading
V&A wins Museum of the Year 2016 award
“Indisputably… one of the best museums in the world” is how judges described the Victoria & Albert Museum, which won the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2016 award last night.
The £100,000 prize was presented to the V&A by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge in a ceremony at London’s Natural History Museum. Accepting the award, V&A Director Martin Roth told the gathering of leading museum and cultural leaders that the prize money would be used to re-establish an old department axed due to budget cuts, which had been dedicated to supporting and collaborating with other museums and galleries across the UK. Continue reading
