London’s V&A Museum is looking to hire a Taylor Swift superfan

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Swifties throughout the UK will likely be offered with the chance of a lifetime as a London museum seems to recruit its first-ever skilled Taylor Swift adviser.

The Victoria and Albert Museum, the world’s largest museum of utilized arts, ornamental arts and design, will likely be taking purposes for the place by their web site on Friday (23 February).

The fortunate particular person will likely be paid to share insights into the tradition and craftsmanship of memorabilia related to the 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist forward of the European leg of her Eras tour.

The adviser will spend their time sharing their experience round handmade indicators, customary friendship bracelets exchanged at exhibits, and different Swift memorabilia which can be seen at the “Cardigan” singer’s sold-out live shows.

The initiative is a part of the museum’s broader effort to improve its “vast curatorial knowledge” by partaking grassroots specialists to help in “specific cultural niches”.

London’s V&A museum has already stuffed 4 superfan roles, for Toby jugs, Pokemon playing cards, Gorpcore clothes and Lego.

The Toby jug is a conventional 18th-century English pottery jug formed like a seated determine, usually sporting clothes from that interval and generally depicting a well-known character or historic determine.

Gorpcore is a vogue pattern the place clothes particularly designed for outside actions is worn as streetwear, resembling puffer jackets and fleeces.

The museum is additionally looking for people passionate about Crocs footwear, emojis, and drag, amongst different roles.

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The roles will likely be paid a set charge per session, which will likely be mentioned with candidates on the interview stage.

Bob Moores, the Toby jug superfan adviser, stated: “I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been able to turn my love of collecting early English Toby jugs into my full-time job.

“I acquired my first Toby jug some 25 years ago and since then have developed an absolute passion for these quintessentially English jugs and being allowed to work alongside the experts in this field at the V&A is a privilege and being paid to do so is an added bonus.”

The museum’s recruitment efforts stem from its analysis, which reveals that 44% of Britons consider gadgets of their private collections are worthy of a place in a museum.

More than a quarter (27%) of British collectors consider they’re extra educated about their chosen ardour in contrast with specialists.

Dr Tristram Hunt, director of the museum, stated: “These new advisory roles will help us celebrate and discover more about the enormous, and often surprising, creative diversity on offer at the V&A, as well as helping us to learn more about the design stories that are relevant to our audiences today.

“Already appointed into a role include four of the UK’s leading grassroots experts who have many decades of collecting experience between them, spanning highly niche expertise across Toby jugs, Gorpcore, Lego and Pokemon.”