Assistant Curator, East Asia South Kensington, England
Victoria and Albert Museum
Full Time
South Kensington, England
25070 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
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.
Victoria and Albert Museum
www.vam.ac.uk
London, United Kingdom
Tristram Hunt
$25 to $50 million (USD)
501 to 1000 Employees
Government
Culture & Entertainment
