assistant curator at v&a east

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.