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Meet our experts

Jennifer Wearden 

Senior Curator of Textiles 

In the 28 years Jennifer worked with the Museum’s Textile Collection she curated a V&A exhibition called The European Art of Textiles and authored/co-authored several V&A publications including Samplers, Ottoman Embroidery, Oriental Carpets and Iranian Textiles. More recently, she has been delivering sold-out courses on the history of textiles and dress.

Dr. Kathy McLauchlan

19th Century European Art Historian

Dr Kathy McLauchlan graduated at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute. In 2001 she completed a PhD thesis on French painters in Rome during the 19th century. A lecturer specialising in 19th-century art history, she is currently a course director at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson 

Jewellery Historian

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson is an international jewellery historian, author and lecturer. She was consultant curator to the redesigning of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery and guest curator of the ‘Pearls’ exhibition at the V&A. Today she is the curator of the Alice and Louis Koch Collection, now in the Swiss National Museum.








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FAQs

Do I need to have any skills or qualifications to take a course?

No. You don’t need any special qualification to enrol on a V&A course. We will always try to be as specific as possible in the course description about the level the course is pitched at.

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Each course has a different duration. You can find the estimated completion time in the course description. However, since the courses are self-paced, you can go faster or slower as needed.







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