Assistant Curator, V&A East
| Posting date: | 15 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,520 to £32,952 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Stratford, London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We're looking for a dynamic, creative and reliable Assistant Curator to help make V&A East’s vision a reality.
The Assistant Curator will join our small but ambitious curatorial team where we are reimagining what radical and equitable access to our national collections looks like. They will play a key role in ensuring that we continue to push the boundaries of curatorial practice, finding new and exciting ways to engage our target audiences and open-up our vast collections to our local community. With a keen interest in contemporary artistic, design and performance practice, we are seeking an individual who will work to make V&A East a world-renowned centre for the creation of new work across our various programme streams, commissions and residencies.
This is an exciting time to join: less than a year into the opening of V&A East Storehouse and on the eve of opening the new V&A East Museum.
A world-first in size, scale and ambition, and new source of inspiration for all, V&A East Storehouse immerses visitors in over half a million works spanning every creative discipline from fashion to theatre, streetwear to sculpture, design icons to pop pioneers. A busy and dynamic working museum store with an extensive self-guided experience, since 31 May 2025 visitors have got up-close to their national collections on a scale and in ways not possible before.
Co-created with young people, creatives, and East London locals, V&A East Museum celebrates creativity’s power to bring change around the world. It will feature exhibitions, creative commissions, and events spotlighting the people, ideas and creativity shaping global culture right now. V&A East Museum opens on 18 April 2026.
We are incredibly excited about the team we are building, and are looking for a forward-thinking, proactive and solution-focused colleague with whom we can ensure the success of V&A East.
We are looking for applications from those living in, or with significant lived experience of, our surrounding boroughs (Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) to help build V&A East for and by the local communities.
The Assistant Curator will join our small but ambitious curatorial team where we are reimagining what radical and equitable access to our national collections looks like. They will play a key role in ensuring that we continue to push the boundaries of curatorial practice, finding new and exciting ways to engage our target audiences and open-up our vast collections to our local community. With a keen interest in contemporary artistic, design and performance practice, we are seeking an individual who will work to make V&A East a world-renowned centre for the creation of new work across our various programme streams, commissions and residencies.
This is an exciting time to join: less than a year into the opening of V&A East Storehouse and on the eve of opening the new V&A East Museum.
A world-first in size, scale and ambition, and new source of inspiration for all, V&A East Storehouse immerses visitors in over half a million works spanning every creative discipline from fashion to theatre, streetwear to sculpture, design icons to pop pioneers. A busy and dynamic working museum store with an extensive self-guided experience, since 31 May 2025 visitors have got up-close to their national collections on a scale and in ways not possible before.
Co-created with young people, creatives, and East London locals, V&A East Museum celebrates creativity’s power to bring change around the world. It will feature exhibitions, creative commissions, and events spotlighting the people, ideas and creativity shaping global culture right now. V&A East Museum opens on 18 April 2026.
We are incredibly excited about the team we are building, and are looking for a forward-thinking, proactive and solution-focused colleague with whom we can ensure the success of V&A East.
We are looking for applications from those living in, or with significant lived experience of, our surrounding boroughs (Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) to help build V&A East for and by the local communities.
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