London
LOCATION
London
SALARY
£27,528
JOB ADDED
2 months ago
The Role
The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Our mission is to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere. To support our mission we are recruiting a Digital Imaging Assistant to join our Photography and Digitisation department. The post-holder is expected to be able to respond quickly and efficiently to cope with digitising a wide variety of 2D material such as prints, colour transparencies, glass-plate negatives, posters, paintings, books, manuscripts, wallpaper and fabric samples and deliver high-quality images to time and brief. Candidates will have experience working in a professional digital imaging environment, ideally in a heritage context and are able to demonstrate knowledge of relevant imaging software and hardware and imaging processes. A willingness to learn and follow new procedures is essential.
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people’s lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
- To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
- Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
- Expand the V&A’s international reach, reputation and impact.
- To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
- Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
- Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.