2025 is shaping up to be another blockbuster year for the South Ken museum
How do you follow on from Elton John and Naomi Campbell? With Cartier and Marie Antionette of course. Yes the V&A has announced its programme for 2025 and it’s going to be a big year for jewellery and fashion fans. Running from 12th April to 16th November will be the UK’s first major exhibition on Cartier in almost 30 years. Featuring over 350 objects, including jewels, watches and clocks, the show will explore how the Maison grew to become one of the preeminent names in the jewellery and watch world, beloved by royals and the rich all over the globe.
On 20th September (and running to 22nd March 2026), the museum will open Marie Antoinette Style, the first ever UK exhibition on the fashionable and ill-fated French queen. As well as showing how she was a fashion icon in her own time, the display will examine Marie Antoinette’s influence on design, fashion, film and decorative arts more than 200 years after she was put to the guillotine. Those two exhibitions will sandwich Design and Disability, a show opening on 7th June (and running to 15th February 2026) that will highlight the impact that disabled, Deaf and neurodiverse people have had on design and contemporary culture.
Once you’ve got those dates noted down in your diaries, check out all the unmissable exhibitions that’ll be on this September.
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Key Information
Dates | From Sat 12th April 2025
Address | Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
For more information | vam.ac.uk