CFP: Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation (London, 22-23 Oct 26)
“Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation: Changing Museum Strategies from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century”. The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM) are collaborating to organize a…
ANN: V&A Provenance Research Seminar: State of the (Future) Field (3 June, 16.00 – 17.15, V&A South Kensington)
This talk follows on from a 2024 article published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association. The talk will consider the state of the field of the history of collecting and its…
CFP: Academy, Market, Industry: Sculptural Models, Themes, and Genres between Britain and Italy, c. 1742 – 1854 (V&A London, 26-27 May 2025)
The University of Buckingham and the Victoria and Albert Museum are organising a two-day interdisciplinary conference on the role played by British-Italian artistic exchanges in shaping sculptural models, themes, and genres between the…
Call for Posters: Collecting Spain (London, 8-9 June 2018)
Call for Posters “Collecting Spain” Victoria and Albert Museum, London 8 and 9 June 2018 https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/rR6NNqRe/collecting-spain The aim of the conference is to study the collecting history and practices in the Spanish Decorative…