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Join the V&A's Inspiring Mission to Enrich Lives Through Art and Design as Part of the South Asia Gallery Redevelopment Project
Overview
Salary
£33764
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
The V&A, a world leader in art and design, invites you to be a pivotal part of reimagining the South Asia Gallery. With a collection that spans over 5,000 years of human creativity, the V&A aims to be the global beacon of art, design, and performance, offering enriching experiences to a broad audience. This is your chance to contribute to a significant project that will renew and revitalize the museum's 30-year-old gallery, incorporating innovative narratives and enhancing visitor engagement.
- Develop fresh and innovative learning programmes
- Expand audiences by centering community voices
- Collaborate with national partners to co-create educational content
- Organize and deliver engaging events
- Fixed-term contract until December 2025
- Generous pension scheme
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible working arrangements
- Free access to V&A exhibitions
- Subsidised staff canteen
- 25% discount in V&A shops
- Employee benefits including loan schemes and professional development opportunities
The Role We are embarking on a large project to redevelop the museum’s current South Asia Gallery to update object displays and re- contextualise the collection through new narratives and an enhanced visitor experience. The project will see the transformation of the 30-year-old gallery into a dynamic new space with innovative narratives and displays. Centring community voices, this role will work closely with wider teams to develop relevant, fresh and innovative learning programmes that expand audiences, and work with national partners to develop new relationships to co-create and deliver educational content and events. This is a contracted position until December 2025.
The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience.
Benefits Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks
