Tour: This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour describes the history of the V&A and introduces a selection of treasures from the Museum's outstanding collections. Starting at the Meeting Point, Grand Entrance at 12.30. Sound enhancement equipment is available for visitors with hearing impairments.
Contemporary Programmes: From Interventions to Commissions
17/05/2012
Daily Introductory Tour 13.30
17/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Tour: This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour describes the history of the V&A and introduces a selection of treasures from the Museum's outstanding collections. Starting at the Meeting Point, Grand Entrance at 13.30. Sound enhancement equipment is available for visitors with hearing impairments.
Theatre & Performance Galleries Tour 14:00
17/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Tour : Take a guided tour of the V&A's exciting theatre and performance collections, including rock & pop posters, theatre and ballet costumes, puppets, stage sets and more! See new costumes from the Lion King now on display.
British Galleries Tour 14.30
17/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Tour: This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour introduces the V&A's stunning British Galleries which house the most comprehensive collection of British design and art on view anywhere in the world. Starting at the Meeting Point, Grand Entrance at 14.30. Sound enhancement equipment is available for visitors with hearing impairments.
Daily Introductory Tour 15.30
17/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Tour: This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour describes the history of the V&A and introduces a selection of treasures from the Museum's outstanding collections. Starting at the Meeting Point, Grand Entrance at 15.30. Sound enhancement equipment is available for visitors with hearing impairments.
Back-packs & Trails
18/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Family Event: Every Saturday 10.30 -17.00 and during some school holidays pick up an Activity Back-Pack and embark upon an adventure across the V&A. The Back-Packs are full of hands-on activities related to the collections and are suitable for 5 to 12 year-olds.
Daily Introductory Tour 10.30
18/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Tour: This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour describes the history of the V&A and introduces a selection of treasures from the Museum's outstanding collections. Starting at the Meeting Point, Grand Entrance at 10.30. Sound enhancement equipment is available for visitors with hearing impairments.
Early Medieval 11/12
18/05/2012 to 13/07/2012
Medieval & Renaissance Tour 11.30
18/05/2012 to 31/12/2012
Tour: This daily tour is a free, non-bookable drop-in event. The one hour tour introduces the V&A's stunning Medieval & Renaissance Galleries. Starting at the Meeting Point, Grand Entrance at 11.30. Sound enhancement equipment is available for visitors with hearing impairments.
V&A Sanctuary
18/05/2012 to 22/06/2012
Norfolk House Music Room Concert
18/05/2012 to 13/07/2012
Performance: Free concerts by musicians from the Royal College of Music are performed on selected Friday evenings in the beautiful setting of the Norfolk House Music Room, from 18.30-19.30. For programme details visit Friday Evenings
BSL Tour: Fashion
18/05/2012
Friday Evening Introductory Tour 19:00
18/05/2012 to 21/12/2012
Tour : A free evening introductory tour of the V&A starts at 19.00 from the Meeting Point at the Grand Entrance.
Zandra Rhodes
18/05/2012
Playing Petrucciani
18/05/2012
Ballgowns:
19/05/2012 to 06/01/2013
Create! Set Design
19/05/2012 to 26/05/2012
Gallery Play: Little Lights Theatre
19/05/2012 to 30/06/2012
Performance : Enjoy the collection with fun interactive gallery performances for all the family. For more details visit www.vam.ac.uk/families
Digital Design Drop In
19/05/2012 to 30/06/2012
Demonstration: Drop-in and meet visiting digital designers on selected dates. See ‘show and tell’ presentations of digital design and chat with them about their work. Selected Wednesday afternoons only, see below for available dates.
Open Studio - Jason Singh: Sound Art Resident
19/05/2012 to 27/06/2012
Open Studios - Cherrell Avery: Calligraphy Resident
19/05/2012 to 27/06/2012
Fashion and Film - Chanel
19/05/2012
Make-it: Calligraphy (10-12yr olds)
19/05/2012
Harris Tweed Teacups
20/05/2012
Drop in Design
20/05/2012 to 30/12/2012
Family Event: Every Sunday and during some school holidays, from 10.30 to 17.00 explore the V&A's collections through drawing and making activities.
Arts of Asia 11/12
21/05/2012 to 16/07/2012
Twentieth Century Design 11/12
21/05/2012 to 23/07/2012
Late Medieval & Early Renaissance 11/12
22/05/2012 to 10/07/2012
High Renaissance to Baroque 11/12
23/05/2012 to 11/07/2012
The 'South Kensington system' - art education & the V&A in the 19th Century
23/05/2012
Rococo to Art Nouveau 11/12
24/05/2012 to 12/07/2012
The Queensberry Hunt: Ceramic Design
24/05/2012
Friday Late - Dinner is Served
25/05/2012
CreateVoice presents.. The Friday Forum
25/05/2012 to 29/06/2012
Introducing Lewis Carroll
26/05/2012
Open Studio - Louisa Taylor: Ceramics Resident
26/05/2012 to 20/06/2012
Celebrating British Design
27/05/2012
Intercultural Tour - The depiction of the female in Asian religious traditions
28/05/2012
John Hegarty
29/05/2012
From Gormley to Gaga: UK Design for Performance
30/05/2012
Skills Studio: Ceramic Professional practice workshop
31/05/2012
Heatherwick Studio:
31/05/2012 to 30/09/2012
Patterns of Fashion
31/05/2012
V&A Connects - The Studio Unravelled: Architectural Practice Revealed
01/06/2012
Flamenco Virtuoso
01/06/2012
The Imagination Station - June Half Term
02/06/2012 to 10/06/2012
Digital Kids
02/06/2012 to 24/06/2012
Make-it: Calligraphy
04/06/2012 to 07/06/2012
From A to B: Artists' Books
06/06/2012
Inside Outing: Ballrooms from High Society to High St
06/06/2012
Displaying Fashion
06/06/2012
Designing Extravagance: decorating the Italian Renaissance Palace
07/06/2012
Fantasy & Fashion: Ballgown Illustration
08/06/2012
Inside Outing: Heatherwick Studio
08/06/2012
Makers' Guild
08/06/2012
Intercultural Tour - Black Figures on the Dining Table
11/06/2012
Peter Blake & Wayne Hemingway
12/06/2012
Ballgowns: Clients and Designers
13/06/2012
Get Online with the V&A
13/06/2012
Angels and Saints
14/06/2012
Island Stories: Fifty Years of Photography in Britain
14/06/2012
Vintage Style: Corsetry
15/06/2012
Introduction to Fashion Photography
15/06/2012
Pórtico de la Gloria at Santiago de Compostela Study Afternoon
15/06/2012
David Sassoon
15/06/2012
Designing the Decades: 1960s
16/06/2012
Make-it: Fashion Illustration (10-12yr olds)
16/06/2012
Refugee Week 2012
18/06/2012 to 24/06/2012
Intercultural Tour - British Refugee designers from Nazi Europe
18/06/2012
Touch Tour: Fashionable Living in the British Galleries
19/06/2012
Closer Look: Architecture Talks - Station to Station: the design & architecture of railway stations
19/06/2012
Creating the New Jewish Museum
20/06/2012
Huguenot Silver Gilbert Collections
21/06/2012
BSL Tour: Japanese Enamels - The Seven Treasures
22/06/2012
Style Cities:Vienna
23/06/2012
Dance Photography Masterclass
27/06/2012
Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary
27/06/2012
Recording Britain: Constable and his Contemporaries
28/06/2012
The Photographic Studio at the V&A Museum, a continuous history from 1856 to the present day
28/06/2012
Friday Late - Un-built
29/06/2012
From Biba to Topshop: 20th Century Retail
30/06/2012
Where Did You Hang Out?
30/06/2012
Sir Terence Conran
03/07/2012
Fashion in Focus: The A Line Skirt
06/07/2012
Nigerian Folk meets Jazz
06/07/2012
After the War - 50s & 60s Style, Image and Identity
08/07/2012
Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship : Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times
19/07/2012 to 21/07/2012
Youth Protest - The Teenager's Voice
22/07/2012
DesignLab Teachers' Summer School
24/07/2012
Art and Design 1900-2012 12/13
17/09/2012
Late Medieval to Early Renaissance 12/13
18/09/2012
High Renaissance to Baroque 12/13
19/09/2012
Rococo to Art Nouveau 12/13
20/09/2012
Early Medieval 12/13
21/09/2012
Arts of Early China: Neolithic to the Song Dynasty
24/09/2012
1900 Cities: The City at the Turn of the Century, from Paris to New York
25/09/2012
The English Golden Age: Theatre and Playwriting from 1570-1642
26/09/2012
Talking Threads: A History of Tapestry and Embroidery
26/09/2012
Tudors & Stuarts: British Art & Design 1500-1700
27/09/2012
Hollywood Costume
20/10/2012 to 27/01/2013
Eric Ravilious
17/11/2012
Renaissance to Restoration London
15/01/2013
Home Sweet Home: British Interiors 1500-2000
16/01/2013
British Patchwork and Quilts: Concealed, Discovered, Revealed
17/01/2013
Holbein to Hockney: Art in Britain at the V&A
22/01/2013
The Arts of the Byzantine Empire
23/01/2013
Form, Fashion, Function: A Concise History of Furniture
24/01/2013
Fire, Earth and Water: East Asian Pottery and Porcelain