Curator, Fashion and Textiles Since 1900

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design, and performance. We care for 2.8 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. We are a family of museums including V&A South Kensington, V&A Dundee, V&A Collection at World of Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent, Young V&A (opening in July 2023) in Bethnal Green, and V&A East Museum and V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, east London (both currently under construction).

The V&A’s Collections Division comprises four Curatorial teams, a Research team, and a Conservation and Collections Care & Access team. The four Curatorial departments are: Decorative Art and Sculpture; Performance, Furniture, Textiles & Fashion; Art, Architecture, Photography & Design; and Asia.

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.

This is one of eleven Curator posts that sit in the PFTF Department. The post holder will take responsibility for the development, care of, documentation and research, presentation, and interpretation of a part of V&A’s Collection, in this case, textiles and fashion since 1900, with particular emphasis on the contemporary. As such, the postholder will be expected to represent the Museum at the highest level and play an active role in the field of textiles and fashion collecting, nationally and internationally.

Closing date for all applications is Sunday 4 June 2023 at 23:59.

Interviews: 13 June