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Calling all Swifties and super fans! Join V&A as a 'Superfan Advisor' to showcase your Taylor Swift expertise, shape art history, and explore their vast collection.
Overview
Salary
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Location
London
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In-person- London United Kingdom
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is a treasure trove of art and design history, managing a vast collection of over 2.8 million items that celebrate human creativity spanning 5,000 years. The museum is on a mission to incorporate contemporary cultural phenomena into its collection, and it seeks the unique perspectives of passionate superfans to help shape the future of creativity and museum collecting.
Role Summary
- Engage with V&A curators to offer insights into specific niche interests.
- Educate museum experts on the significance of your passion in art and design history.
- Participate in behind-the-scenes tours of the V&A's extensive collection.
- Influence future museum programming with your specialized knowledge.
Role Requirements
- Deep knowledge and enthusiasm for a specific cultural niche or trend.
- Willingness to collaborate with museum curators and share expertise.
- Interest in the history and future of art, design, and creativity.
Are you an encyclopaedia of Emojis? A connoisseur of Crocs? The most studious Swiftie? A tufting trailblazer? Or even a Drag devotee? If you’re into it, it’s in the V&A.
We’re currently recruiting five ‘Superfan Advisors’, to help us learn more about our collection at the V&A as well as the current cultural trends that will inform the future of museum collecting.
Our curators are custodians of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. As such, we’re always looking to learn more about our collection, whilst acting as cultural trendspotters on what to collect next. So, we want to hear from you about your hyper niche interest and why it is important to the history of Art and Design, and the future of creativity.
Successful candidates will meet curatorial experts at the V&A, share knowledge about their specialist subject, learn about the history of these objects and why they are relevant to art, design and the future of creativity. Candidates will also have the chance to go behind the scenes at the V&A to view relevant items from the collection.
The V&A will cover reasonable travel costs to the museum for the curatorial meeting, and successful candidates will receive a V&A Membership as part of the role.
Insights from the sessions with our curatorial team may be used to develop future programming at the museum.
Advert closes at 7 March 2024 @ 23:59
We have the right to close this advert early.
