ELTA Project V&A Theatre Collections. Who We Are Formerly called the Theatre Museum Collections...

ELTA Project

V&A Theatre Collections

Who We Are

• Formerly called the Theatre Museum

• Collections founded at the V&A in1924

• The National collections of performing arts material

• Archives, ‘museum objects’, library collections

• Now the V&A Theatre Collections – new galleries open at the V&A on 18th March

V&A Contribution

• 10,000 images• Contextual essays• Gazetteer of 100 East London Theatres• Intensive focus on 3 venues:

Britannia Theatre, HoxtonStandard Theatre, ShoreditchPavilion Theatre, Whitechapel

Digital Material

• Playbills

• Programmes

• Books of words

• Ledgers – London Pavilion Ltd

• Illustrations

• Plans

Playbills

Programmes

…and their adverts

Texts, ‘Books of Words’

Periodicals

Not all popular entertainment…

Illustrations

Contextual Essays

• Blackface

• Crime and Punishment

• East London Immigration

• Local Interest

• Nautical Drama

• Stage Adaptations

• World of Work

http://www.elta-project.org/theme-crime.html

http://www.elta-project.org/theme-immigration.html

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