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🎁 GIVEAWAY! Word around town is Micro Scooters UK will feature in our museum when we reopen next summer. More on that later. 😏
For now, we're giving 2 scooters away! Here's how you enter:
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GIVEAWAY! 🪅 makes clothes that expand for growing kids. These cleverly designed CLOTHES THAT GROW caught our attention and will feature in our future museum when we reopen next year. 🎉
For now, you can WIN a garment:
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Giveaway from Young V&A! ✨
We may be temporarily closed but we're still thinking of you. We're giving away 5 sets of beautiful illustrated children's classics from our pals at . To enter, simply:
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We miss our storytelling workshops with you! 📚💫
So, we're teaming up with Tower Hamlets Idea Stores for a special one on 10 September at Cubitt Town Library. Together we'll use objects from our future museum to create an interactive story.
Timings + info here: https://bit.ly/3Ky7XIs
Tomorrow and Monday we're at All Points East running free workshops for kids from 12.00 - 16.00. 🎪
Come on down for large-scale den building and other design challenges. Find out what we're up to: https://fal.cn/3rbJr
This weekend | V&A South Kensington
Free family activities in our garden & art studios: https://fal.cn/3qZby
Got a young budding fashion designer in the house? Come along to our drop-in workshops and get the kids creating their own celebratory patterns.
Inspo for coming your way...
You could create a handy tool box using household recyclable waste. We've had a go.
After school scenes please 🌭
This photograph is called 'Hot Dog & Burger Bar' and was taken 36 years ago in New Brighton, Merseyside by documentary photographer Martin Parr.
🖌️ Cartoonist Zoom Rockman making us wish we lived in an illustrated world. ✨ We're honoured to have been drawn by the inspirational Zoom, the Youngest ever Contributor to Beano at age 12, and Private Eye Magazine at age 16!
We have a VERY big birthday today. It's been officially 150 years since we opened, and oh how far we've come...
🥇 We were east London's first ever museum.
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh was an early visitor.
🐒 We've housed different collections over the years from curious animal and food products...
🚸 ...to becoming officially the Museum of Childhood 48 years ago.
🦋 Now, we're transforming into a beautiful butterfly, reopening next summer as the Young V&A, a museum dedicated to children from 0 - 14, their families & carers.
Find out more: https://fal.cn/3pIqd
Just because we're temporarily closed doesn’t mean we can’t have fun. Next week marks 150 years of us being in east London, and 1 year to go until we reopen.
So, we’re throwing a festival to celebrate 150 years, with 150 ways to be creative. Starting with pop up art & design events happening all summer, view the full programme: https://bit.ly/3MMEI4o
140 years ago a little scraggly dog named Jim roamed our museum in South Kensington. He belonged to Sir Henry Cole, founder of the V&A.
So, we're thrilled that actor Dame Emma Thompson & illustrator Axel Scheffler are releasing a Xmas tale this year, all about Jim's adventures on Puffin Books ! ☃️🎄
Do you have a dolls' house? 🏡🧡
Look through the rooms of one of ours - made by Amy Miles in 1890, built on the memories of her childhood house in North London. It was one of the first dolls’ houses to be collected by the V&A 💫
This weekend! Express your mood in a wrist watch...
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What would you do if you could spend a night at the museum, when everyone else is asleep?
What would you see? Where would you go? In our new film, we go on a magical night-time trip to the V&A. See the full film: https://fal.cn/3o9ha
Got any doubts that kids make brilliant designers? 🌟
Meet one of Young V&A's new acquisitions - The Hero Arm. A bionic 3D printed arm, co-designed by kids 📏
On this week's Secrets Of The Museum on BBC iPlayer, we unbox ours and meet the amazing Tilly Lockey who has pioneered some VERY glam ones: https://fal.cn/3nOb4
This is Pumpie! ❤️
Pumpie is a very old elephant - over 120 years old! Below, you can see a picture of Pumpey on holiday painted by his owner, dated 1906.
Picking a favourite toy and drawing their adventures is a great way to while away an Easter holiday afternoon 🐘
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These amazing 1967 animal Papersacks were created by Fredun Shapur from paper bin bags when his kids needed a last minute costume for a school event. Something every parent who has pulled their hair out for an emergency costume will empathise with 😱
What would you have played with if you were you 190 years ago? 🤔
This paper doll has LOTS of costumes for your doll to try. If she wants some new clothes - no problem! You can grab a piece of paper and make new ones! 👗👒🌂
When all that stands between you and everything you want to be is a paper bag, glue, some marker pens and your imagination ✂️🎨🧵
You can be anything! What do you choose?
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🎶 Music by Julian Vera, distributed by XX Music.
📽️ Filmed and edited by Helen Lawson
Question! How do these teddy bears stop your dinner getting cold? Do their sporty antics keep your food hot? Nope! This dish has a secret base full of hot water.
When this plate was used over 100 years ago (!) the hot water would keep a child’s dinner tasty and toasty😋
Brrrrr! It may be cold outside, but the great outdoors has got us inspired. From the changing textures and colours of the leaves to feathers and pebbles, we challenge you to create and design your own seasonal collage. Grab your coats, get scavenging!
https://fal.cn/3latm
STOP! Before you think about binning that toy/mug/jumper think about how you might fix it or change it into something else.
Put your design skills to the test through upcycling - there are lots of creative ways to help us waste less. https://fal.cn/3kYGi
Where can your imagination take you?
This doll started off life as an ordinary mutton bone, but was transformed into a beloved child's doll. What ordinary things can you make extraordinary with your imagination?
Kaleidoscopes are colourful and magical, but just how do they work?
The magic of the optical device consists of mirrors that reflect images of bits of coloured glass in a symmetrical geometric design through a viewer.
Now you know, it's your turn to make one - follow the guide here https://fal.cn/3jUrt
👀 spy with my little 👁.... some geometric shapes hidden in the real world.
Wherever you are, shapes are everywhere! What can you spot when you look out of the window? Draw the shapes you see around you.
You can give them a new colour and remix the shapes into something new. What can you create? https://fal.cn/3jKpY
We are delighted to announce that we are looking for our very first Young V&A Design Residency 🎉
Learn more about residencies at the V&A and apply here: https://fal.cn/3jbqN
Today we are excited to announce the next stage of the ambitious transformation of V&A Museum of Childhood. Introducing Young V&A. The UK’s premier national museum entirely dedicated to children, designed with young people.teachers and families
Opening 2023 with a host of new acquisitions, the new museum will be a place for young people to play, create, debate and design for tomorrow. Learn more here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/young
For this week's MOC Doodle Challenge we are exploring a design icon, the 'Juicy Salif' designed by French industrial architect Philippe Starck in 1990. Taking inspiration from a calamari lunch he once enjoyed in Capri, Italy, Starck radically reimagined what a lemon squeezer could look like, elevating the squeezer head on four spindly legs to resemble a squid. How could you re-imagine Stark's design? Firstly, use pens, pencils or paint sketch out Stark's lemon squeezer. Then use collage or drawing to transform the design into something from your imagination- a spider, a treehouse, or a monster... it's up to you! Share your design with us using and swipe through to see our example.
For this week's MOC Doodle Challenge we are exploring a design icon, the 'Juicy Salif' designed by French industrial architect Philippe Starck in 1990. 🍋
Taking inspiration from a calamari lunch he once enjoyed in Capri, Italy, Starck radically reimagined what a lemon squeezer could look like, elevating the squeezer head on four spindly legs to resemble a squid. How could you re-imagine Stark's design? Firstly, use pens, pencils or paint sketch out Stark's lemon squeezer. Then use collage or drawing to transform the design into something from your imagination- a spider, a treehouse, or a monster... it's up to you!
Share your design with us using and swipe through to see our example.
A horse? A bull? What do you see? 🤔
The 'Mico seat' challenges traditional ideas of a chair through its fun and abstract design, encouraging playful exploration.
Roar! 🐯
For this week's MOC Doodle Challenge we are looking at how animals move. Firstly, take a look at this toy tiger made in India between 1980-89. Made of papier-mache the tiger's head is detachable from his body. It has metal hooks which fit on a metal rod in the neck opening, and a weight attached on one end of the head causes it to nod. Now find your favourite animal in the V&A's collection and think about how it would jump, sliver, pounce or gallop.
Use pens, pencils or paint to bring the animal to life and share your design with us using . See our example!
https://fal.cn/3ikwd
Happy Roald Dahl day! 🎉
Today we’re celebrating 105 years of the wonderful storyteller and his timeless literary characters. Like this poster for a stage production of Matilda, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Which of his stories was your favourite growing up?
Feeling hungry?....For this week's MOC Doodle Challenge we are thinking about food! Firstly, take a look at this 'Sack-O-Sauce' print by Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi published in 1972. Made by mixing screenprinting, lithography and collage, this design includes a hand holding a jar of hotdogs, Mickey Mouse and colourful abstract shapes. Inspired by Paolozzi, create a design of your favourite food using a mix of different creative techniques. Try out drawing, painting, collage, paper cutting or photography. Share your design with us using and swipe through to see our pizza inspired example.
Anyone for a biscuit? 🍪☕
Take a look through these gorgeous decorative biscuit tins. The most intricate designs were produced in the early years of the 20th century, prior to the First World War when the process of offset lithography allowed multicoloured images to be printed onto tin.
For this week's MOC Doodle Challenge we are exploring the ocean. Firstly, take a look at this blue- green cosmetic tray made in Egypt around 1550BC-1077BC. In the form of a tilapia fish, this tray would have been used to hold cosmetic powder. How could you redesign an object from your house to take on the shape of a creature from under the sea? Maybe a crab kettle, a jellyfish jewellery box or shark sofa? Use pens, pencils or paint to show others your ideas. Share your design with us using and swipe through to see our octopus candelabra example.
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Giveaway from Young V&A! ✨ We may be temporarily closed but we're still thinking of you. We're giving away 5 sets of beautiful illustrated children's classics from our pals at @PuffinBooks. To enter, simply: →Follow us & @PuffinBooks →Like this post → Tag another grown up Full T&Cs are here: https://fal.cn/3sgHl
Inspo for #thingstodowiththekids coming your way... You could create a handy tool box using household recyclable waste. We've had a go. #craft
We have a VERY big birthday today. It's been officially 150 years since we opened, and oh how far we've come... 🥇 We were east London's first ever museum. 🎨 Vincent Van Gogh was an early visitor. 🐒 We've housed different collections over the years from curious animal and food products... 🚸 ...to becoming officially the Museum of Childhood 48 years ago. 🦋 Now, we're transforming into a beautiful butterfly, reopening next summer as the Young V&A, a museum dedicated to children from 0 - 14, their families & carers. Find out more: https://fal.cn/3pIqd
Just because we're temporarily closed doesn’t mean we can’t have fun. Next week marks 150 years of us being in east London, and 1 year to go until we reopen. So, we’re throwing a festival to celebrate 150 years, with 150 ways to be creative. Starting with pop up art & design events happening all summer, view the full programme: https://bit.ly/3MMEI4o
This weekend! Express your mood in a wrist watch... 🧡⌚👍
When all that stands between you and everything you want to be is a paper bag, glue, some marker pens and your imagination ✂️🎨🧵 You can be anything! What do you choose? ... 🎶 Music by Julian Vera, distributed by XX Music. 📽️ Filmed and edited by Helen Lawson
Today we are excited to announce the next stage of the ambitious transformation of V&A Museum of Childhood. Introducing Young V&A. The UK’s premier national museum entirely dedicated to children, designed with young people.teachers and families Opening 2023 with a host of new acquisitions, the new museum will be a place for young people to play, create, debate and design for tomorrow. Learn more here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/young
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