The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. The V&A’s Collections Division comprises six curatorial, research, and conservation and collections care & access teams. V&A’s Collections Division comprises six curatorial, research, and conservation and collections care and access teams. The curatorial departments are Asia; Art, Architecture, Photography and Digital; Decorative Arts and Sculpture; and Performance, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion. The staff in these teams are at the heart of the founding purpose of the museum: to care for, research and develop the collections, to exhibit them to the public, to make them available for study and research, and to broaden access to the collections.
The Asia Department curates the V&A’s outstanding collections from East Asia, South and South-East Asia, and the Middle East. The East Asian holdings number over 67,000 objects from China, Japan and Korea including paintings, sculpture, textiles, metalwork, arms and armour, jewellery, and furniture, which range in date from the 4th millennium BCE to the present.
Please see the job description attached above for more information about the role.
The closing date is
Sunday 07 May 2023 at
23:59 and interviews will likely take place on 23 May.