Month: December 2018

On Climate Change and Museums

On Climate Change and Museums

This weekend, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) met in Katowice, Poland with the aim of reaching a global climate agreement. Almost 200 hundred nations’ diplomats were in attendance, and all agreed to track their annual 

Weekly Jobs Roundup!

Weekly Jobs Roundup!

Hello everyone! Here’s the weekly jobs roundup for the week of December 16th, 2018: Northeast Associate Registrar for the Collection/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [Boston, MA] Galleries Coordinator/Massachusetts College of Art and Design [Boston, MA]  Program Manager/Cambridge Historical Society [Cambridge, MA] Rosenfeld Project Manager/Mystic Seaport Museum 

Weekly Job Roundup!

Weekly Job Roundup!

Hello Museum Folks! Here’s the weekly jobs roundup for the week of December 9, 2018

Northeast

Rosenfeld Project Cataloguer / Mystic Seaport Museum [Mystic, CT]

Education Manager / USS Constitution Museum [Boston, MA]

Curatorial Assistant / Williams College Museum of Art [Williamstown, MA]

Communications Content Editor / Yiddish Book Center [Amherst, MA]

Executive Director / Hull Lifesaving Museum [Hull, MA]

Mid-Atlantic

Chief of Exhibits / State Museum of Pennsylvania [Harrisburg, PA]

Director of Interpretation and Education / National Trust for Historic Preservation [Washington DC]

Audience Research Associate / Philadelphia Museum of Art [Philadelphia, PA]

Curator of 20th Century American Art / Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts [Philadelphia, PA]

Executive Director / Oxford Arts Alliance [Oxford, PA]

Southeast

Archivist / South Carolina Department of Archives and History [Columbia, SC]

Curator of Asian Art / Birmingham Museum of Art [Birmingham, AL]

Director of Curatorial Affairs / Artis-Naples [Naples, FL]

Museum Manager / Jekyll Island Authority [Jekyll Island, GA]

National History Day in Kentucky State Coordinator / Kentucky Historical Society [Frankfort, KY]

Midwest

Executive Director / Museum of Danish America [Elk Horn, IA]

Executive Director / Russian Museum of Art [Minneapolis, MN]

Public Information Officer / Missouri Historical Society [St. Louis, MO]

Head of Exhibitions / Saint Louis Art Museum [St. Louis, MO]

Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs / Historic Sites Manager [Des Moines, IA]

West

Collections Manager / Arizona Historical Society [Tucson, AZ]

Content Production Specialist / Getty Trust [Los Angeles, CA]

Archivist / The Chinati Foundation [Marfa, TX]

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship / San Antonio Museum of Art [San Antonio, TX]

Archaeologist / Bishop Museum [Honolulu, HI]

 

 

Adventures in Repatriation: Around the World and Down the Street

Adventures in Repatriation: Around the World and Down the Street

  Last month, the Medford Public Library, in the town where Tufts University is located, announced an auction of “surplus goods”. The goods turned out to be a number of Native American religious objects, including shaman’s masks and rattles and a totem pole, all of 

Weekly Jobs Roundup!

Weekly Jobs Roundup!

Greetings readers! Here is the national jobs roundup for the week of December 3rd: Northeast Facilitator [Tsongas Industrial History Center/ UMass Lowell- Lowell, MA] Manager of Youth and Family Programs [Greenwich Historical Society- Cos Cob, CT] Vice President of Experience [EcoTarium- Worcester, MA] Supervisory Museum