The Museum and Study Collection tells the story of Central Saint Martins’ rich history. The collection contains work produced by staff and students, a large art and design teaching collection, the British Artists’ Film and Video Collection, and some historical college records.
The teaching collection spans the 13th century to the present, and includes early printed books, prints, illuminated manuscripts, embroideries, 1920s German film posters, textiles and garments. We hold material created by CSM staff and students over the last one hundred years, and have collected from degree shows for the past two decades. The collection is open to everyone for inspiration and information.
See our collection displayed in new ways in the Museum Window Gallery on The Crossing or the Lethaby Gallery
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The Perseid Meteor shower is set to peak tonight. Here's one of three glazed earthenware meteors by Gerard Bermudez from our collection. #perseidmeteorshower https://t.co/Cc95YmBTMs
Wishing CSM Alumni Hussein Chalayan a happy 48th birthday! His iconic #airmail dress is available to view in our collection. https://t.co/kKxb2XLB0n
Regrann from @joortmans - Shiny shiny Disco Ball dress by #teerabulsongvich in @CsmMuseum window for The Co Create exhibition by students of Foundation Plus #disco #mirrorball… https://t.co/uhB5YpCzZ4
Object of the day is this design, Toccata, for a Liberty scarf by John Wright. https://t.co/XzpQj0Q72P
Enid Marx: Print, Pattern and Popular Art at our neighbouring gallery House of Illustration, is the most comprehensive retrospective of Marx’s work mounted in the last 40 years. In 1921, […]
2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which extended voting rights to women who met certain, limited criteria, but left 60% of the female population […]
Since the 1960s Central Saint Martins has played a crucial role in artists’ moving image culture in the UK – from feminist practice to the avant-garde. Celebrating this rich history, Temporalities, […]
Museum & Study Collection curator Sarah Campbell introduces I Don’t Know Her Name, But I Know Her Work, a display that questions the lack of representation of women in graphic […]
The Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection receives many wonderful donations to its collections, adding to its range for students, staff and the public. Here are two of the […]
Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection has recently lent its prized Alexander McQueen leather jacket to Present Imperfect: Disorderly Apparel Reconfigured on show at the Fashion Space Gallery at […]
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