This week’s Learning Treasures of the Internet presents you another great source on TeachPitch – The V&A Museum.

V&A Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum) is the world’s leading museum of art and design and is located in London. On their website you can find great teaching & learning material about art from all over the world. It offers a wide range of resources for teachers teaching art, design, religion, history, etc.

Victorian social life from paintings contains an introduction to some of the Victorian paintings in the V&A and suggests ways of using them as sources of historical evidence. It aims to help teachers of History at Key Stages 1 and 2 use these paintings with students as part of their work on Victorian Britain.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was an exhibition in the museum. The museum provides some resources for teachers to use in the classroom along with activity sheets.

Lesson plans are also available, e.g. The Fabric of India, Exploring calligraphy through the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art,  Jewellery,Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900.

* To access to teaching & learning materials from V&A Museum, please log in to TeachPitch, and select “V&A Museum” under “All sources”. Have fun searching!