The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), in London, an ASEMUS member, has announced the return of two of its most popular international training courses in the summer of 2017. The course on "Curating Fashion and Dress" will take place on 26-30 June, whereas that on "Creating Innovative Learning Programmes" will be held on 3-7 July. The courses are led by V&A experts and include both talks and hands-on workshops. Providing a unique opportunity to work with V&A colleagues and with peers on specific aspects of museum practice, participants will be invited to share examples of projects from their institutions that they could develop during and after the course. Additional details about each of the two courses are presented hereafter.

Curating Fashion and Dress

Spanning four centuries, the V&A’s Fashion collection is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. V&A fashion exhibitions have attracted millions of visitors enabling the Museum to develop an extraordinary wealth of expertise in the field of curating fashion and dress. This one-week intensive course is a unique opportunity for museum professionals from overseas who are interested in harnessing the V&A’s extensive expertise to develop their own fashion and dress curation skills and enhance their collections.

Creating Innovative Learning Programmes

This one-week intensive course on museum learning and public programmes is a unique training opportunity for museum professionals from overseas who are interested in attracting and programming for a range of museum audiences from children, young people and schools, through in-depth courses for adults.

Further information

For additional information about these and other learning opportunities, and access to the relevant application forms, please visit https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/international-training-courses