Covid-19 has changed the way we work, but we are still able to support research visits for UAL staff and students and for external researchers. If you have a research enquiry, please contact us at the usual address and staff will do their best to help. Please book a week in advance.
Object-based learning at the Museum & Study Collection
Object-led wellbeing: mobilising museum collections for social good
The Museum & Study Collection is open to everyone for inspiration and information. It 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.
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Museum exhibitions
See our collection displayed in new ways in the Museum Window Gallery on The Crossing or the Lethaby Gallery
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Image courtesy of Central Saint Martins, students at a table pointing at a hamster cage
Visit
Find out about our public study room, how to book a research visit or group sessions, and how to bring objects to CSM classes
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Online catalogue
Explore our rich collections in detail
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Collection strengths
Discover the collection’s diversity and depth
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Enquiries
Ask about our collections
Collection favourites
Howard Asher's geometric designs inspire many students making new works in the digital age
Curator Sarah Campbell on a piece by MA Industrial Design grad Thomas Ballhatchet
Head of the Museum & Study Collection Judy Willcocks talks about conservation
Anna Buruma on Joyce Clissold: textile designer, printmaker, former teacher and alum
More info
@CSMMuseum Tweets
Object of the week: hand-made book on peasant costume with pencil notes and watercolour drawings by Norah Waugh. https://t.co/HQmUfwjOw1
Object of the week: 'The Utility of Cork Ramps 1777' mounted pen and ink sketch of woman with elaborate hairstyle with hairdresser standing on her bustle from the collection of Pegaret Anthony, https://t.co/cCJpJFG8DF
Object of the week: late 12th and early 13th century men's dress by Margaret Woodward. https://t.co/VZzcITaoM3
Object of the week: male in 18th century theatrical dress by Norah Waugh, 1936 https://t.co/c7OWNzdwJe
@csm_museum
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Ashton Attzs CSM Museum & Study Collection window gallery 3rd November 2022- 30th January 2023 Painter and illustrator Ashton Attsz is an alum of the Central...
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New museum window exhibition: Art and psychoanalysis: emotion, intimacy and the unconscious 4 May – 7 June CSM Museum Window Gallery The CSM Museum & Study Co...
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Reposted from the wonderful Boys Don't Cry, founded by CSM alumni and a group who have worked with the @csm_museum on mental health projects: @boysdontcry_uk T...
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Reposted from @csm_news "Faces of Extinction" by Leekyu Jeon @shearwater29 BA Graphic Communication Design @csmgraphics On show in Nature & Humans: The Road...
Museum & Study Collection stories
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Mel Calman, 1996 Art and psychoanalysis: emotion, intimacy and the unconscious
Exploring work from the Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection, alumni and assistant curator Siyan Zhang looks at emotion, intimacy, trauma, relationships, desire and unconscious.
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Photography by Philip Wolmuth Goddesses of King’s Cross
Artist, alum and Senior Lecturer, Raksha Patel, responds to botanical prints in the CSM Museum and Study Collection. Her painting Tulsi, the Goddess of Kings Cross, which also pays tribute to the King’s Cross communities that were displaced by the
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Acts of Translation, Mohammad Namazi Acts of Translation
Acts of Translation, an exhibition by artist Mohammad Namazi, explores the process of immersion in a collection and how historic objects resonate with lived experience.
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Farida Eltigi, BA Graphic Communication Design Class of 2021: Deans' Awards
For the past two decades, the CSM Museum & Study Collection has actively purchased works from graduating students. This year, the Deans' Awards supports the purchase of more work than ever before as the Museum welcomes 28 new pieces into its