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Creative Connections

Unleash your creative side with activities inspired by different areas of the Royal Collection.

Eastern Encounters

Image from 'Book of Emperors' showing group of men in brightly coloured robes.
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Magnifying manuscripts: Looking for details
A prince recites poetry to attendants in a garden
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Muraqqa- inspired makes
musicians in a garden
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Musical pictures
Shamsa or sunburst
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Shamsa: the missing piece

Decorative and delightful

Rectangular cabinet veneered with ebony and set with three pietra dura panels of flowers and birds, the central panel incorporating high relief pietra dura fruit; bordered with premiere partie boulle marquetry on tortoiseshell. Fitted with three doors con
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Fantastic flowers
Master: Pair of hen ewers and covers
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A chicken challenge
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Collection of Faberge Eggs
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An egg-stravaganza!
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Close photograph of tulips in a garden
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Bringing the outside inside
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Royal toys
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Royal teddy bears and toys

Painting pictures

face of old woman from John Riley's painting
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Put yourself in the picture
The German artist Johan Zoffany arrived in London in 1760 and soon established a reputation for informal conversation pieces in which accurate and lively portraits were set in surroundings showing the sitters’ taste and circumstances. John Stuart, 3rd E
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Spot the difference
The Memorial of Lord Darnley
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Looking for details
Interactive
Imagined conversations

Lost in the Library

Pages from The Tempest
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Inspired by Shakespeare
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Mainz Psalter
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Magnificent Mainz Psalter
Alice's adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Book of Kings
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A Persian hero
View of the inside of the library in Queen Mary's dolls house
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Lost in the library: Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House

Captured on camera

Collage designed by Alexandra, Princess of Wales
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Creative collage
Wedding group in Estremadura, Spain c.1858
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Setting the scene: Photographic portraits
Tableau of the seasons
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Living pictures
Hand-coloured photographic print of horse and trappings presented to Queen Victoria
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Living in colour
Photograph of members of Queen Victoria's family
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Family photographs

Amazing archives

page from Queen Victoria's diary
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Queen Victoria's diary
painting of Queen Charlotte
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Queen Charlotte
pressed flowers
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Queen Victoria's pressed flowers
Queen Victoria's paper dolls
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Queen Victoria's paper dolls

Put it on paper

Painting and sketch of a knight from Albert Edward's teaching sketchbook
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Sketch like a prince
drawing of hands by Leonardo da Vinci
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Hands-on art
A map of Imola by Leonardo da Vinci
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Making a map
Drawing of the lower section of the Grand Canal, Venice
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Art techniques

Inspiration

image of drawings and pens
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Art for wellbeing
Painting of horse and rainbow above
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Making rainbows
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