The V&A Magazine offers a window on to the objects and people of the world-renowned V&A, now a family of sites around London and the UK. Expanding on our major exhibitions and unrivalled collections, each issue celebrates beauty, history and ideas. From Donatello to Chanel, medieval glass to contemporary tapestry, ancient Egyptian treasures to the birth of digital art, V&A Magazine is a celebration of the power of creativity in all its forms.

Published three times a year, each issue explores the season’s major shows and events across V&A South Kensington, V&A Dundee, V&A East, Young V&A and the V&A Wedgwood Collection. Original photography takes you behind the scenes with curators, conservators and more, uncovering fresh research and hidden gems among the museum’s 2.8 million objects. Regular features include studio visits with current makers and book reviews from leading cultural commentators, celebrating the creative industries that the V&A was founded to inspire.

The Summer 2026 edition of V&A Magazine marks the opening of V&A East Museum and its inaugural exhibition, The Music is Black: A British Story. Dame Shirley Bassey, Fabio and Grooverider and Skunk Anansie's Skin talk breaking ground as pioneers of Black British music, while Michael Clark, Margaret Howell, Michelle Ogundehin and others admire treasures on show inside the new museum, and the classicist Natalie Haynes gets close to the ancients at V&A East Storehouse.

Plus:

·       What inspires the makeup artist Val Garland

·       Miranda Sawyer on George Michael

·       Iain R Webb hails a century of the catwalk

·       And more