Victoria and Albert Museum - Free Tours

A series of FREE tours, open to all, have been planned for Thursday lunchtime, and highlight Africa and the Black Diaspora within the V&A museum.  These tours present rare opportunities to explore objects, sometimes more than once, that go unnoticed, often because they are not relevant to our personal history or heritage or we are simply not interested.  Occasionally, however if the hidden is introduced to us, their stories have such an impact regardless of background, culture or status, that we remember and embrace them and make them our own.  Join us for the first of three tours that we hope will leave you with much to think about:



Searching the Hidden Caribbean
DATE: Thursday 19 September

TIME: 13.00 - 14.15 (75 min)

WHERE: Meeting Point, Grand Entrance, V&A Museum

ADDRESS: The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 2RL

Enjoy a tour of some of the V&A's Caribbean objects hidden amongst, arguably, the most outstanding art and design collection in the world. Meet a scholar and a collector of fine art who both made their income on the back of slave trading.  Look out for a house servant, a hair grooming kit and a warrior. Discover Nat Gaynes and the suit worn by London's first Black headteacher, and try to decipher the slogans ‘The Mighty Tamaroo’ and ‘King Peace the Great'. Led by Avril Horsford, Cultural and Academic Consultant.

The tour is FREE but places are limited to a maximum of 25 visitors on a first come first served basis


Click to view on-line information

http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/2892/searching-the-hidden-caribbean-4263/





Other tours in the series are:

Dates may be subject to change - please check the V&A website before planning your journey



Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art -
led by Michael Ohajuru on Thursday 24 October


Underground & Overground: minding the gap in the V&A collections of various images of Black representation -
led by Rovianne Matovu on Thursday 20 February 2014