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HISTORICAL FACTS: Young va - The Untold Story

V&A workers hold ballot to strike over pay and heatwave conditions

Union calls for museum to become accredited London living wage employer and let staff carry water during shifts

The Guardian - UK

Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends at Young V&A – A grand family day out

5/5 Beware, this show may encourage children to pursue a career in the creative industries

Evening Standard

Curator hopes London Aardman exhibition can inspire future animators

Inside Aardman: Wallace And Gromit And Friends opens at the Young V&A in Bethnal Green on Thursday.

Evening Standard

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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Wuthering Heights hits cinemas, Aardman Animations celebrate 50 years of stop-motion classics, and the Berlinale Film Festival begins. Here's what's in store this week.

Euronews

This small London museum has been named best in Europe for 2026 – and it’s free

It was recognised by the awards body for empowering younger generations

The Independent UK

The World’s Most Joyful Museum In London Wins The Museum Of The Year Award

The perfect museum does exist: here you can touch the items and being loud is huge part of the experience. The post The World’s Most Joyful Museum In London Wins The Museum Of The Year Award first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Tears, fancy-dress tyranny and tedious discourse: it can only be World Book Day

The pressure can be overwhelming – so I gave up on green eggs and ham and found a low-effort solution, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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The best art and architecture of 2023

Our critics’ high points include a ceramic wedding cake you can climb inside to Alice Neel’s fearless portraits, plus a new children’s V&A and a school with lumpy yellow walls

The Guardian - UK

Young V&A: Museum of Childhood rebrand excels at playful spaces but misses chances to go deeper

The former Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green has reopened its doors as the newly styled “Young V&A” after a “£13m programme of reimagining”. The new offering marks an effort to embed creativity into the visitor experience, with child-centred design at the heart of its new strategy.

The Conversation

Writer angry as V&A London children’s museum removes trans and queer books from view

‘This decision was not intended to be exclusionary’ the V&A tell us

Evening Standard

‘Share the Parthenon marbles’, mayor Sadiq Khan tells the British Museum

‘There’s a discussion to share some of this stuff’ Khan told a Greek newspaper

Evening Standard

Young V&A review – child’s play with added wonder

The old name was better, but the £13m revamp of the former Museum of Childhood in east London is a lighter, brighter magical toyshop

The Guardian - UK

Young V&A review: ‘The cobwebs have been truly blown away’

After a three-year, £13m reimagining, the former Museum of Childhood has been reborn as a joyful and inspiring paradise of play

The Guardian - UK

Young V&A crafted as a ‘joyful’ space for children and families

Young V&A opens in east London promising a ‘joyful’ experience for children of all ages

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‘Horrible’ disparity emerging in cultural education in schools, says V&A head

Speaking at launch of UK’s ‘first museum created with and for young people’, Tristram Hunt said it could help fill gap

Evening Standard

Young V&A first look: at last, London has a museum that is truly for kids instead of just about them

After three years and £13 million, the V&A Museum of Childhood is reopening in radically different form as Young V&A. We got a sneak preview

The Guardian - UK

Move over, stuffed teddies. Museums today need more to stimulate young minds

An old childhood favourite reopens its doors this week. A revamp was long overdue, says its director

Evening Standard

Young V&A to open in London this summer after £13m redevelopment

Designed with and for children under the age of 14, the space aims to inspire the next generation of artists, designers, performers and practitioners.

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