Salary London Living Wage (£14.80 per hour)
Location Cromwell Road, London
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The Role
The V&A Conservation team is offering a five-month internship (or nine months part-time) specialising in Textile Conservation - an exciting opportunity to preserve and provide access to the V&A’s collection of South Asian art and design.
The V&A is embarking on a major project to update and re-contextualise the museum’s South Asia Gallery ahead of its planned opening in 2028. This transformation aims to celebrate South Asian perspectives and ensure that contemporary stakeholders are placed at the heart of its re-presentation.
The permanent gallery at V&A South Kensington displays highlights from a vast collection that spans 4,000 years and comprises around 60,000 objects- primarily from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Interns will work directly on the assessment and conservation of a diverse range of either textile objects for display.
Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, this role offers a unique hands-on opportunity to develop a broad range of practical conservation skills within a specific discipline, while collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary project team across the organisation to realise the gallery transformation.
Join us for a pre-application webinar on Monday 6th July 2026 (16:00-17:00 BST) to explore our recruitment process, learn about the South Asia Galleries refurbishment project, internship structure, and ask your questions during a live Q&A - https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a874328d-487b-4182-add6-3bb45c09a0c2@6d72a8a6-623e-42c4-b817-045b4df2add4
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.
The Benefits
Benefits
Generous pension scheme
29 days plus bank holidays
Flexible working
Tickets to V&A exhibitions
Subsidised staff canteen
25% discount in V&A shops
Give as you earn scheme
Bicycle loan
Interest-free season ticket
Interest-free rental deposit loan
Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike
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Wide range of training and professional development opportunities
Employee Assistance Programme
Staff diversity networks
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ED&I at The V&A
At the V&A, we are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for all and strive to go above and beyond public duty placed upon us by the Equality Act 2010. As such, we are delighted to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A makes the following commitments to all applications:
The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.
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