Christie's is offering grants for research into subjects related to Nazi-era provenance research (4 x £5,000 for postgraduates and 5 x £1,000 for undergraduates). More information: christies.com/en/events/the-…

I am giving a talk on my PhD research for Institute of Historical Research’s seminar for collecting and display on Monday evening, the 13th of May. In person and online at Senate House in London so do join in if you can.

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Come and do a funded PhD with V&A and UCL on the Provenance of Asian Collections!

I'm excited to share that the Victoria and Albert Museum and University College London are offering a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship on the provenance of the V&A's Asia Collection. For more information: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Thanks ARTnews for spotlighting #provenance research and to my colleagues in the field for their important contributions to this work!
Victoria Reed Judith Barr Lynley McAlpine Jacques Schuhmacher Catherine Herbert
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Bold move by V&A and British Museum to lend directly to the Asante King, not Ghanaian government, for a 3 year period... for starters? Tristram Hunt would like to see in the UK 'a committee where we would have to appeal if we wanted to restitute items'.

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, the preeminent Holocaust historian Dan Stone will explore in this lecture at the V&A the psychological arguments for surviving the Nazi camps:

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Compelling case put this morning on BBC Radio 4 Today by Tristram Hunt of V&A that the laws governing #museums in the UK need to be looked at & potentially overhauled, as a way of empowering museums, especially on questions of #restitution & loans. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Museum trustees legally ‘hidebound’ over repatriations, says Tristram Hunt dlvr.it/SzSXv3

'Do you think Britain's reputation was damaged by the PM's refusal to meet the Greek Prime Minister because of this row?'

Nick Robinson asks Tristram Hunt, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, about the ongoing dispute over the Elgin Marbles.

#R4Today

Several V&A items currently in the British Museum exhibition #BurmaToMyanmar

And that’s a wrap! And what a week! Had an incredible time in DC attending and presenting at #AsiaProvenance workshop & symposium with the amazing Tullia Fraser & many old and new friends

The Diplomatic Archives now offer fully searchable access to the inventories and digitized archives of the Commission de Récupération Artistique (Commission for Art Recovery) (CRA) section in the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs files.

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All the tickets for HoD's 40th Anniversary Conference, 2 and 3 November, have been allocated.
BUT there have been some cancellations. So, come to V&A, Hochhauser Auditorium, at 10.00 AM and we'll try and seat any walk-ins.

Absolutely thrilled to share the call for papers for a two-day conference co-convened by V&A and National Trust supported by The British Academy. Thanks to Lucy for her hard work and Tarnya Cooper for leading the collaboration National Trust . Get you paper proposals in!

Congratulations to Arthur MacGregor! His new #openaccess book The India Museum Revisited, published in association with V&A, lands today! ow.ly/718L50PBlZt #twitterstorians #museums

Now that paperwork is done, I can say that I am starting my 2nd CDP Connect placement at the V&A, working on the provenance of their South Asia collections from 1880-1947! Already enjoying diving into the acquisition registers 🧐

PS how beautiful are these V&A mouse pads?!

Join me next weekend Darb 1718, as I talk on Cairo through the collection of the V&A.

The last time we gather at this cultural space in Fustat, in a special community of potters, as it's demolition is eminent by the authorities, to make way for yet another highway!

I’d like to highlight a really interesting conference on the future of museums, happening at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 19 and 20 October 2023.

Tickets are free. Register here:

vam.ac.uk/event/3nN7p4jg…

Delighted to assist the Republic of Yemen care for its incredible artistic heritage by taking temporary custodianship of these ancient stelae - on sale in an interior design shop! Look forward to V&A returning them to Yemen in near future theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…