Tristram Hunt news

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has launched the final phase of its huge new photography centre, making it the largest space in the UK housing ... More

A museum dedicated to children will open its doors in London, UK, on 1 July 2023. The new £13m Young V&A is set to become ... More

Construction work has begun on a £13m redevelopment project which will look to transform the V&A Museum of Childhood into the UK’s "premier national museum" ... More

The Smithsonian Institute has announced a new partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) that will see the curation of a new gallery at ... More

London’s V&A Museum has announced a partnership with Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, that will see its Gallery 101 in the newly opened ... More

A number of major British museums are taking steps to learn the origins of artefacts on display originally procured in the colonial era. London’s British ... More

London’s V&A Museum has opened its new Photography Centre – a dedicated space showing works including the Royal Photographic Society collection, which it acquired in ... More

Photographs of Scotland’s first design museum, the V&A Dundee, have been released ahead of its 15 September opening. The building was designed by Japanese architect ... More

V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum, will open to the public on Saturday 15 September 2018, it has been revealed. New images of the Kengo ... More

V&A director Tristram Hunt has called for a full pedestrianisation of South Kensington’s Exhibition Road following the car crash that left 11 injured on Saturday ... More

Britain’s exit from the EU poses a major threat to the future of museum collections, according to the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum ... More

The United Nation’s global strategy on sustainable development will be put under the spotlight at a forthcoming London conference, which will see some of the ... More

The UK government has announced plans to distribute £4m (US$4.9m, €4.6m) in funding to galleries and culture centres across Britain. Jointly funded through a partnership ... More

Tristram Hunt – Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central – is to step down from his position in order to become the new director of London’s ... More

A panel of judges has been announced for next year’s Art Fund Prize for Museums and Galleries, now rebranded Museum of the Year. Applications for ... More

The contents of the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent may have to be auctioned off after the museum went into administration. The Wedgwood Museum Trust went ... More

Plans for a month-long celebration of London have been unveiled by mayor Boris Johnson, with a number of events designed to document the capital's past, ... More

This week has seen not one, not two, but five programmes on BBC Radio about the importance of parks in the urban environment. Every afternoon ... More