Guided tour

Search over 300,000 objects

The search function allows you to search across nine national museums and galleries.
You can add items to your notebooks, groups and favourites from the search results page.
Follow the links through to the relevant museum sites to view a larger image and get more information on each item.

1. Search across the collections using keywords.
2. Filter the results by museum.
3. Each item displays curated information provided by the museum of origin, and how it has been used by others.
4. You can save an item into your favourites or directly into your notebooks or groups.
5. You are notified about how you've used an item.
6. Navigate through the different pages.

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Favourites: Your top collection items

Mark your favourite items from any collection and they’ll appear on your profile page.
From here you add them to groups and notebooks, or remove them from your favourite list

1. You can clear the list below.
2. Each item displays curated information provided by the museum of origin.
3. View the tags you used when saving the item in your favourites.
4. You can save a favourite item directly into your notebooks or groups.

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Your Page : Manage your account

Your Page shows all your information, including notebooks, groups, contacts and activity.

1. Enter your latest inspiration.
2. Change your personal data, profile picture, email or password. Respond to group and contact invitations.
3. View recent activity from you and your contacts.
4. Access collection objects saved to your favourites.
5. View your notebooks.
6. View your groups
7. View your contacts

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Notebooks: Collect your inspirations

A notebook is like your own personal museum collection.
If you’re exploring a particular artist, movement or theme you can create a notebook to collect all your favourite items in one place.
Or perhaps you’ve visited one of the museums and want to share your pictures, videos and comments alongside items from the collection.
Notebooks can contain items from the museum collections, together with your own notes, links, images, audio and video.
A notebook can be private or public. Public notebooks can be viewed and commented on by other users.
Notebook examples: Eileen Gray, V&A Wedding dresses

1. Find the latest notebooks, popular notebooks or your own notebooks.
2. Search for notebooks.
3. Create your own notebook.
4. Each notebook shows author, the museum of origin, and the number of comments or views.
5. Navigate through the different pages.
6. The tag cloud displays topics by popularity, where bigger tags are more popular. All tags in the tag cloud are clickable

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Anatomy of a notebook

You have full control of your notebook and its contents

1. View your notebook details: title, description, viewing policy and statistics.
2. Change the title, description and viewing policy of your notebook.
3. Choose the type of entry for your notebook: text, picture, video, audio, link or an item from our collections.
4. Entries are displayed in chronological order.
5. View entry comments. Edit or delete an entry.
6. Collection items used in this notebook.
7. View similar notebooks.

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Groups : Share your inspiration, build a collection with others

Groups are a place to build collections and share inspiration with other users.
Like notebooks, you can create a group around any theme that interests you, and add items from the museum collections together with your own notes, links, images, audio and video.
Group members can add, remove and comment on items in groups.
Groups can be open or joined and viewed by invitation only.
Examples of groups: Hats – An Anthology, Steam Trains

1. Find the latest groups, popular groups or your own groups.
2. Search for groups.
3. Start your own group.
4. Each group shows the creator, the museum of origin and the number of members.
5. Navigate through the different pages.
6. The tag cloud displays topics by popularity, where bigger tags are more popular. All tags in the tag cloud are clickable.

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Anatomy of a group

You can start your own group or join an existing group

1. View the group details: title, description, viewing policy and statistics.
2. Leave a group you're a member of.
3. Choose the type of entry for the group: text, picture, video, audio, link or an item from our collections.
4. Entries are displayed in chronological order and display who posted them.
5. Add a comment or report an entry.
6. View members of this group.
7. Collection items used in this group.

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People: Find other users

See everybody else who is using Creative Spaces

1. Find active people or your own contacts
2. Search for people.
3. Each individual displays name, inspiration status, museum of origin and number of notebooks, groups and contacts.
4. Navigate through the different pages.
5. Invite people to use Creative Spaces

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Video

See how the Creative Spaces collections have inspired exceptional people such as Vivienne Westwood, Tony Robinson and Peter and Dan Snow.

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