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York Museums Trust – Volunteers Advisor
York Museums Trust are seeking to appoint an experienced volunteer’s advisor to join their people team to lead on the development and delivery of a volunteering strategy and to support managers to deliver volunteering across all of their sites. The ideal candidate will have significant experience of working in the volunteering sector and will be […]
York Museums Trust – Head of Development
York Museums Trust seeks a Head of Development to be a fundraising champion and take responsibility for maximising income from all fundraising streams, providing expert advice around all fundraising activities across the trust. You will have the opportunity to grow and shape the fundraising team to ensure it develops to meet the needs of the business. […]
Peace Museum – Audience and Participation Coordinator
Peace Museum in Saltaire is looking for an Audience and Participation Coordinator to deliver audience and participation activities to support the delivery of the museum’s vision and objectives. Closing date – Monday 10 June Find out more on the website
Paul Mellon Centre – Calls For Papers About Art History Precarity
The Paul Mellon Centre invites contributions from scholars whose work deals with the difficulties of practising art or art history within precarious contemporary or historical contexts, broadly defined. By bringing together the past and future of art histories in precarious worlds, they seek to understand how it might be part of the resistance struggle today […]
Two Northern Museums To Pilot Sensational Museum Project
The Sensational Museum Project aims to rethink the role of senses in all aspects of museum work, from accession, cataloguing and collections, through to curating, exhibitions and the visitor experience. The £1m initiative is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and supported by a range of industry partners, including the Museums Association. Ten […]
Rotherham Museums – Collections and Exhibitions Manager
Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage is looking for an experienced Collections and Exhibitions Manager to become part of the Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage team for 12 months maternity cover. You will manage the Collections and Exhibitions team to oversee the effective management, documentation and development of the accredited museum collections. You will also lead […]
The National Archives – Digital Assets Register Toolkit and Training
As part of their digital capacity building strategy, Our Digital Century, The National Archives commissioned the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) to develop a toolkit on creating and maintaining a Digital Asset Register (DAR) for your archive. A DAR is used to gather information to better understand your digital content and make managing its preservation more […]
Annual Museums Survey 2024 Goes Live
This year’s Annual Museums Survey will open next week on Monday 20 May and all previous returnees will be invited to participate. Your survey return helps support and guide our programmes, and provides you with invaluable data for advocacy and funding bids. If you participated in the 2023 survey or registered to participate this year, […]
IAASF Conference October 2024 – Early Bird Tickets
The International Arts and Antiquities Security Forum (IAASF) is holding its 2024 Conference in the North East of England on 16 and 17 October 2024. The theme will be ‘Developing Resilience for the Protection of Cultural Venues’ and the IAASF are looking for speakers and exhibitors. See the IAASF website for details. Early bird tickets […]
National Trust – Experiences & Partnerships Curator
National Trust is looking for someone who is innovative, creative, and well networked, who can identify opportunities and help deliver an audience-led approach to programmes, partnership, participation, and interpretation. This role will have a particular focus on supporting properties in the Lake District and North West. Closing date – 26 May For more details go […]