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Exciting intern opportunity in the V&A's Prints and Drawings curatorial team with a focus on the collection of Randolph Caldecott.
Overview
Salary
£14.8
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
The Victoria & Albert Museum, the world’s most prolific museum of art and design, is set to open a paid internship for a duration of 22 weeks within its Prints and Drawings curatorial team. The chosen candidate will help spotlight the artwork of Randolph Caldecott and his legacy. With a vast collection of over 2.8 million objects, books, and archives, V&A is a hub of historical and cultural artifacts stretching back over 5000 years. Investing in the enrichment of lives, we promote the research, knowledge, and enjoyment of the designed world.
- Role Summary:
- Enhance the visibility of Randolph Caldecott’s artwork via cataloguing and research.
- Ensure a proper understanding of his role and legacy in the illustration history.
- Role Requirements:
- Passion for art and design
- Research skills
- Understand the museum's mission of promoting art and design to a wide audience
- Application Process Details:
- Stand out from the rest by showing your commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Highlight your desire to contribute to the V&A's mission.
The V&A is excited to be opening a 22 week internship opportunity in our Prints and Drawings curatorial team to focus on the collection of Randolph Caldecott. This paid internship will help the V&A to improve visibility of Randolph Caldecott artworks through cataloguing and research into his place and legacy in illustration history.
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 include a generous pension scheme, 29 days plus bank holidays, flexible working, tickets to V&A exhibitions, a subsidised staff canteen, and a 25% discount in V&A shops. Additional benefits include a bicycle loan, interest-free season ticket and rental deposit loans, free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike, and a wide range of training and professional development opportunities.
At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. We are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2, offering guaranteed interviews to applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria.
