Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Photo story
Generation portraits
Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.
- Article
John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’
I’m a painter, but I make worlds.
- Article
The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
Catalogue
- Books
The Great Exhibition of 1851 : a commemorative album / compiled by C.H. Gibbs-Smith.
Victoria and Albert Museum.Date: 1950- Books
- Online
An essay explanatory of the tempest prognosticator in the building of the Great Exhibition for the Works of Industry of All Nations : read before the Whitby Philosophical Society, February 27th, 1851 / by George Merryweather.
Date: 1851- Books
Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : from the originals painted for H.R.H. Prince Albert / by Messrs. Nash, Haghe and Roberts.
Date: 1854- Books
A guide to the Great Exhibition : containing a description of every object of interest : with a plan poitning out the easiest and most systematic way of examining the contents of the Crystal Palace.
Date: 1851- Books
Lectures on the results of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : delivered before the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the suggestion of H. R. H. Prince Albert / [W. Whewell [and others]].
Date: 1852