The Theatre Collections Online
The V&A Theatre Collections online provides access to information and materials celebrating the UK’s unique performance heritage.
Collections
COSTUMES: Dancer's costume designed by Nicholas Roerich for the 1913 ballet 'The Rite of Spring', a production famed for shocking audiences with choreography and music that was highly controversial at the time.
News
The art and science of designing stage costumes.
A special web feature on the designing, making and wearing of stage costumes is now live.
In March 2009, the new Theatre and Performance galleries at the V&A will open to the public. The galleries replace those at the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden, which closed in 2007. The new displays will explore the process of performance, from the initial conception, through the design and development stages, to audiences' reactions.
The original artwork of the Rolling Stones lips and tongue logo - one of the world's most instantly recognisable symbols of rock and roll - is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, thanks to the help of The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity.
