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Join the V&A's Technical Services Team and Contribute to Preserving Global Creativity and Design
Overview
Salary £26217
Location Cromwell Road, London
Expires Expires at anytime
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), a renowned institution celebrating the immense scope of human creativity, is looking for a dedicated individual to join its Technical Services team. With a rich heritage and an expansive collection of over 2.8 million objects, the V&A is a global leader in the arts, conservation, and education, offering groundbreaking exhibitions and fostering innovation.
- Installation and deinstallation of exhibitions
- Packing and preparing objects for loans
- Creating mounts and framing works
- Regular collections care and project assistance
- Work across multiple sites, including South Kensington, Bethnal Green, Stratford, and Wiltshire
- Be part of the V&A Wedgwood Collection team
- Generous pension scheme
- 29 days of leave plus bank holidays
- Flexible working arrangements
- Free access to V&A exhibitions
- Subsidised staff canteen and discounts in V&A shops
- Bicycle loan and maintenance perks
- Comprehensive training and development
The V&A is an inclusive employer, proud to hold Disability Confident Employer Level 2 status, and is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its endeavors.
The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Our mission is to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators, and innovators everywhere. We share a 5,000-year-old story of creativity through exhibitions, events, educational programmes, digital experiences, conservation, research, and an ever-evolving national collection of over 2.8m objects spanning every creative discipline.
The role entails working in the Technical Services team delivering a wide range of collections-based activities including the installation and deinstallation of public programme exhibitions, packing objects for loan to other museums and galleries, creating mounts for objects and framing 2D works, carrying out day to day collections care and assisting with collections project work.
Job requirements include working across multiple V&A sites, at South Kensington, Bethnal Green and in Stratford. Some work will be at collections stores in Wiltshire and the V&A Wedgewood Collection.
Benefits include a generous pension scheme, 29 days plus bank holidays, flexible working, tickets to V&A exhibitions, subsidised staff canteen, 25% discount in V&A shops, bicycle loan, interest-free season ticket, interest-free rental deposit loan, free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike, and a wide range of training and professional development opportunities.
The V&A is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2.
