Collections in the UK
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London
British Museum
London
The British Museum holds a fine collection of contemporary art medals made by artists from Britain and around the world. These form part of the Museum's internationally renowned collection of medals from the Italian Renaissance through to the twenty-first century. Historical medals are on permanent display in the Museum's galleries of European decorative arts of the 15th-20th centuries. Contemporary medals are displayed in temporary exhibitions, or can be viewed by appointment in the study room of the Department of Coins and Medals.
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North London
Crafts Council
London
The Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK. Its collection began in 1972, evolving in an ad hoc manner through the purchase of objects from the Council's touring shows in the early 70s. Today the Collection numbers over 1300 objects spanning all the main media and represents many internationally acclaimed makers. It is not constituted as a survey of the crafts overall, but reflects a wide and lively spectrum of activity in contemporary craft.
+51.532265 -0.108307 -
East London
The Geffrye Museum
London
The Geffrye Museum explores the home over the past 400 years. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day. They include objects of national importance as well as specialist items, 18th and 19th-century tea caddies and workboxes, an important collection of Utility material and a extensive collection of 1950s curtain fabrics.
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London
V&A Museum of Childhood
London
The V&A Museum of Childhood houses the UK's national collection of childhood-related objects, one of the finest in the world. Dating back to the 16th century, the collection represents the diversity of childhood experiences across the full economic, cultural and historical spectrum in collections of toys, dolls, doll's houses, costume, nursery games and puppets.
+51.527614 -0.054816 -
London
Victoria & Albert Museum
London
The Victoria and Albert Museum - known as the V&A - is one of the world's greatest museums of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. The Museum was founded in 1852 after the Great Exhibition to make works of art and design available to all and to inspire British designers and manufacturers. Today the V&A's collections of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures continue to intrigue, inspire and inform. The Museum's collections span over two thousand years of human creativity, in virtually every medium and from many parts of the world. They encompass architecture, jewellery, textiles and fashion, theatre and performance, metalwork, glass, ceramics, furniture, photographs, prints and drawings, paintings, sculpture, and materials relating to childhood.
+51.496774 -0.172511
