Curator of Digital Design

Deadline: April 17, 2017

The Victoria and Albert Museum is seeking a Curator of Digital Design to join the Design, Architecture and Digital Department. This is an exciting opportunity to define a new approach to collecting and exhibiting digital design for the V&A, as well as taking on responsibility for the care, research, display and interpretation of the Museum’s digital design collections.

The postholder must have strong contacts in the field of digital design and be able to bring design communities together to think about how the V&A should represent them in its collections in the future.  They should also have high levels of literacy with digital design techniques and platforms and clear ideas about how to collect, preserve and display digital artefacts.

This exciting post will see the post holder working closely with colleagues in DAD and other departments including Exhibitions, Research, Conservation and Collections Management. The Curator of Digital Design will  primarily collect the most important design work in the digital realm and be a constant source of ideas for exhibitions, events, publications, in print and online, commissions and other programming. They will also be involved in a wide range of museum projects on site and off.

To apply, please visit the V&A recruitment webpage: https://www.vam.ac.uk/vacancies

Victoria and Albert Museum
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London SW7 2RL
United Kingdom