Curator of Family Exhibitions

Curator of Family Exhibitions

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours

Salary: £33,000 per annum, plus staff benefits

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Lowry is an internationally acclaimed cultural landmark situated at the heart of MediaCityUK, one of the world’s most exciting culture and media destinations.

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Join us in a landmark new exhibition and curatorial role that signals Lowry’s deepening commitment to placing families at the heart of its visual arts offer. Building on the huge success of our free blockbuster family exhibitions such as Julia & Axel; Quentin Blake and Me; and Queens, this post will shape and deliver a new era of creative visual arts programming for young audiences and their families.

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You’ll work alongside a small team and play a leading role in devising imaginative, ambitious and cross-disciplinary exhibitions and experiences that reflect Lowry’s distinctive position at the intersection of visual arts, performance and engagement. Collaborating across departments, you’ll work with artists, gallerists, curators, performers and others to create and co-create family content in Lowry’s galleries and beyond.

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This strategic post places visual arts for families on an equal footing with our most celebrated programmes – recognising its power to inspire, to foster creativity, to connect generations, to open up conversations, and help dismantle cultural and structural barriers to participation.

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You will join Lowry at a moment of real momentum and transformation. This role will help shape future programming across our new digital immersive gallery, public spaces, and wider city-region partnerships. You’ll be part of a pioneering team that is actively rethinking how families encounter and help shape art – and how visual culture can play a vital role in supporting creative lives from the earliest years onwards.

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Lowry is the most visited cultural attraction in Greater Manchester. Our audiences are broad, intergenerational and diverse. We are committed to access, relevance and joy – and to making Salford one of the most exciting places in the UK to grow up creatively. This role is central to that vision.

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The role has a number of staff benefits including:

• Complimentary and discounted theatre and live event tickets
• Free car parking just a few minutes’ walk from the Lowry building
• Paid day off for your birthday
• Discounts at the bars, restaurant and gift shop located within the Lowry building
• Access to Lowry’s Wellbeing Hub and to other health and wellbeing services, including counselling, physiotherapy and remote GP appointments
• Group Life Assurance Scheme

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MediaCityUK is a well-connected destination with a variety of different transport options – bus, car, tram and bike.

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The application deadline for this vacancy is 30 September 2026 at 10am.

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Interviews will be on 15 October 2026, with second interviews provisionally planned for 20 October 2026. Please ensure your availability for these dates.

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For more information, please download the ​ Lowry recruitment pack. To apply for this position please submit your CV and a covering letter by clicking on ‘Apply for this job’ via the vacancy on Lowry’s Careers page. Your application should describe how you would apply your knowledge, experience and skills to fulfil the main duties and responsibilities of the post.

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To ensure fairness and to enable us to process your application through our shortlisting exercise, we ask that you remove all personal details (such as name, age, location, ethnicity, marital status etc) from your CV and covering letter before uploading. This reduces the risk of any potential bias during our recruitment process and ensures that all shortlisting is based on skills, experience and suitability for a role.  Thank you for your understanding. 

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Lowry is committed to creating an inclusive workforce by reflecting and representing the diversity of Salford and the UK. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of Lowry – whether that is to work in our creative or support roles. We particularly encourage applications from the following two people groups who are currently under-represented in our work force and in the wider performing and visual arts sector; those people who experience racism and marginalisation, including those from African, Caribbean, North African, LatinX, South Asian, East Asian and South East Asian heritage and their diasporas, those who are disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent or have long-term health conditions.