From February 2025 we have resumed regular visits to the British Museum Prints and Drawings Study room. Up to February 2020, we had been visiting usually once a month, with occasional visits to the Prints and Drawings Study Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum, for a change and when the British Museum could not accommodate us.

The BM Study Room is a fantastic resource available to anyone through prior booking and permitting access to most of their collection; you can browse the catalogue on line to see what they have, although some items are not available in practice.

oduced to the facility while we were on the MA Drawing course at Wimbledon College of Arts and decided to continue this connection as a group to enable us to explore the collection’s breadth and depth. We can also recommend simply drawing in the public galleries of the British Museum and the V&A; you just need to borrow one of their folding stools and get comfortable. And you do have to deal with interest from members of the public, who are in our experience unfailingly polite and appreciative.

At the BM Prints and Drawings Study Room 2025

 

At the V&A Prints and Drawings Study Room in February 2020.

At the British Museum in December 2019.

Our visit to the British Museum in October 2019

Sketchbook pages from our visit to the British Museum in June 2019.

Some glimpses of our April 2019 visit to the V&A.

We were back at the British Museum in February 2019.

In January 2019, we went to the Prints and Drawings Study Room in the Victoria and Albert Museum for a change.

The gallery below gives some glimpses of our sketchbook work based on our British Museum visits in 2018.