Team Administrator, Decorative Art and Sculpture

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. The V&A’s Collections Division comprises six curatorial departments alongside research, and conservation and collections care and access teams. The curatorial departments are arranged as: Decorative Arts and Sculpture; Furniture, Fashion & Textiles and Theatre & Performance; Graphic...

Main Purpose: As best exemplified by the V&A’s own Cast Courts and cast production, in the nineteenth century, new technologies for reproduction such as plaster casting, electrotyping and photography began to play an important role in the institutional development of art history, archaeology and conservation, and the development of networks between...

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, and the custodian of an extraordinary and extensive collection spanning decorative and applied arts. Working with and for our visitors, we are changing how our extensive Collections are cared for, seen, understood and enjoyed. The Collections Care and Access division is responsible for...

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. We enrich people’s lives by promoting the practice of design and increasing knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the designed world. The V&A is planning an exhibition for Winter 2024 on Moghul art of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The exhibition will be accompanied by a...

In 1868 Henry Cole left London, where he ran both the Department of Science and Art and the South Kensington Museum, for a three-month trip in Italy. There he aimed to investigate historical techniques of architectural mosaic and allied crafts, which might be revived to the benefit of contemporary British design and education. Cole’s handwritten diary of...

This placement focuses on exploring the contributions of Jewish art and antique dealers to forming the V&A’s internationally important ceramics collection. Building on the research objectives of the AHRC-funded project ‘Jewish Country Houses - Objects, Networks, People’ (2019-2024), the student will undertake primary source research using the...

The project is based in the Asia Department/VARI and addresses the growing interest in the V&A’s South Asian Collections. Specifically, it aims to uncover new information about the provenance of items which entered the collection between the arrival of the East India Company holdings in 1879 and the Partition of India in 1947. The student will review V&A...

The V&A has recently acquired 700 design drawings by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), the leading figure in the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival, for furniture, metalwork and stained glass manufactured by John Hardman & Co. of Birmingham. They span private, public, ecclesiastical and secular projects from the early 1830s to 1851. As well as...

**Main Purpose** Supporting the Exhibition Curator in the development and delivery of the exhibition and accompanying publication, including undertaking research and supporting the exhibition administratively. Key Work: - Assist with the process of object selection, identifying relevant public and private collections. This will involve: making...