Explore and comment on the collections of nine museums, upload your own content, and build and share collections with others.
At a glance
- Social Network that connects you with nine UK national museums and galleries.
- Explore, curate and comment on collections.
- Upload your own content.
- Curate and share collections with others.
Creative Spaces connects you with nine UK national museums and galleries, allowing you to explore and comment on collections, upload your own content, and build and share collections with others.
Creative Spaces is a Social Networking application built using Drupal for The National Museums Online Learning Project (NMOLP) led by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Creative Spaces brings together the online collections of nine of the leading UK museums and makes them accessible to the wider public for the first time.
Creative Spaces Promo from Creative Spaces on Vimeo.
Users are able to fuel their cultural passions, by searching and collecting items and adding them to their online notebooks. These digital notebooks are hosted at the site, and designed to be tools to support life long learners, designers, researchers and museum lovers of all ages.

As well as dealing with the branding, interface design, architecture and technical aspects, Milo also led the production of 28 short documentaries featuring people who have been inspired by the museums and their collections.
Vivienne Westwood, Gerald Scarfe, Ian Hislop and Robert Winston to name but a few, lead by example, showing us how they work, and how these museums collections are a constant point of reference in their careers.
Vivienne Westwood - Wallace Collection from Creative Spaces on Vimeo.
The museums involved include British Museum, Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Armouries, Sir John Soanes Museum, Tate, V&A and The Wallace Collection.