"Ballgowns" exhibit at the V&A Museum

Last spring The V&A Museum open the renovated Fashion exhibition space with the show  Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950.  There are two videos in the webpage for the exhibit, one of them about a fashion show at Highclere Castle, so famous now for the tv series Downton Abbey.

The video can be watch here,

from the V&A webpage

Garden Museum London, activities in October

An interesting Agenda from the Garden Museum for those in London.

The Gordiola glass museum, Mallorca

The Gordiola glass museum in Algaida, Mallorca, shows the ancestral technique of blowing glass in the islalnd.  The industry is run by the Gordiola family and dates back to 1719, and the production has evolved from domestic pieces to a more artistic creations.  The premises house a production section with furnaces still working, a shop and a small museum.