The Hidden Women in the V&A’s Cast Courts
📍 🧵 The V&A
Uncover the women whose labour shaped Britain’s design history but don't show in the museum’s narratives.
About this tour
Uncover the women whose labour shaped Britain’s design education inside the V&A’s Cast Courts. This short tour reveals how their tracing, teaching, and reproduction work made national design training possible, even as their contributions were systematically erased from the museum’s history.
What you'll hear
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Stop 1: Welcome to the V&A
An introduction to why Tourus centres erased voices and how this tour uncovers the women behind Britain’s design education.
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Stop 2: Reproduction, Labour, and Lost Authorship
See how women’s meticulous reproduction work made this monumental cast a national teaching tool while erasing their authorship.
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Stop 3: Britain’s Hidden Design Classroom
Discover how women’s uncredited labour shaped the V&A’s nineteenth-century teaching system.
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