Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – One of the best museums in London offers a dream job for any fan of the American singer Taylor Swift.
The Victoria and Albert Museum on Thursday released a job listing entry for a major Taylor Swift fan aiming to advise expert curators and explain the singer’s importance in the history of art and design, which the museum specializes in.
The successful fan will have the opportunity to view relevant items from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection of more than 2.8 million objects, and may help influence the museum’s future programming, the museum said.
The Victoria and Albert Museum said in a statement sent to CNN on Friday that nominees should be able to provide “insights into culture and craftsmanship” centered around the friendship bracelets that Swift’s fans often exchange, as well as the handmade banners that are frequently displayed during concerts. The musical that revives it.
Exchanging special friendship bracelets, which often bear the names of Swift’s songs and albums, or the names of fans themselves, has become a ritual associated with attending the “Ages” tour, Swift’s sixth concert tour.
This tradition was inspired by the lyrics of a song from Swift’s 2022 album, “Midnights,” in which she sings about making friendship bracelets as a way to connect with others through a shared experience.
Friendship bracelets play a starring role in the origin story of her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce.
Last July, he said on his special show that he tried to give Swift a bracelet with his number on it at one of her concerts.
Swift heard about the matter and contacted him, and the pair began dating, according to what Time magazine published in December.
These artefacts, such as bracelets and homemade decorative signs, which fans take to concerts, provide tangible evidence of the economic, cultural and social phenomenon that has characterized the “Ages” tour, which began in March of last year and is scheduled to end in December. Next first.
Objective of the job
The job is part of the V&A’s efforts to “bring grassroots expertise into very specific cultural areas” in order to complement the “broad curatorial knowledge” of the museum’s experts.
As well as Swift fans, the V&A is also looking for superfans of Crocs, emojis and machine weaving to help enrich their exhibitions, and are asking potential applicants to highlight their own collections.
The museum has already hired experts in Lego, Pokemon, and Gurbacore, the trend that… In which hiking clothes are worn as daily uniform, and Toby jugs are made in the shape of a seated person.
Tristram Hunt, the museum’s director, said in a statement that these jobs will help “discover more about the enormous, and often surprising, creative diversity on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. As well as helping us learn more about design stories that are relevant to our audience today.” “.
