Heritage Trades Specialist/Conservation Projects Manager

Full-time position available for commencement in September/October 2019. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt.

International Conservation Services (ICS) is Australia’s largest private conservation practice. We conserve a wide range of cultural and heritage objects and artefacts including paintings, furniture, textiles, paper, sculpture, archaeological artefacts and wall finishes in buildings.

2020-2021 Fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Employer: Royal Collection Trust
• Location: Windsor, UK
• Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 per annum, dependent on experience
• Closing Date: November 17, 2019

About the role
It's the sense of guardianship for a world class collection.

It's preserving unique art. And it's encouraging your team to care for and present remarkable histories and treasures. This is what makes a career in Royal Collection Trust exceptional.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Project Conservator-Paper Conservator, under the supervision of the Chief Conservator, will work with the Luce Project Team to conduct conservation assessments of 3,800 collection items within two major areas of the museum's collection: Native American painting traditions in the southern Great Plains region and the art and archives of Thomas Moran and his wife Mary Nimmo Moran. This is a one-year contract position. The position is funded through an award from the Henry Luce Foundation and is contingent upon grant funds being received.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields seeks a dynamic senior conservator to lead an award-winning conservation department comprised of specialties in paintings, textiles, paper, and objects conservation. This director level position oversees the care of a vast collection of works spanning 5,000 years with significant holdings of African, American, Asian, European, and contemporary art, as well as a growing collection of design arts in a 152-acre cultural campus featuring art galleries, beautiful gardens, historic homes, performance spaces, a nature preserve and sculpture park.

Location: Blythe House, West Kensington
Salary: £27,878.00 - £33,506.00 Per Annum
Duration: 6 months

The Museum is now preparing for a major collections move from its current storage facility at Blythe House to a new Collections and Research Centre, which will enable greatly increased public access to our internationally significant collections, providing facilities for visitors and researchers.

The V&A are seeking a Textile Conservator to undertake the preparation and treatment of a variety of textiles from the V&A's collections. You will undertake all aspects of practical preventive and interventive conservation on textiles and fashion from the Museum's collections, including assessment and technical examination.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Project Conservator-Paper Conservator, under the supervision of the Chief Conservator, will work with the Luce Project Team to conduct conservation assessments of 3,800 collection items within two major areas of the museum’s collection: Native American painting traditions in the southern Great Plains region and the art and archives of Thomas Moran and his wife Mary Nimmo Moran. This is a one-year contract position. The position is funded through an award from the Henry Luce Foundation and is contingent upon grant funds being received.

HCC is the repository and conservation facility for the management and preservation of Singapore’s National Collection. The artworks and artefacts are part of the National Collection and comprise of 19th-21st century socio-historical, cultural, ethnographic, modern and contemporary artwork materials, mainly from the Southeast Asia region. The appointee will carry out conservation assessments, documentation and treatments on artworks and artefacts according to HCC’s procedures, instructions and guidelines for exhibits, loans and events for The Gallery.

At the Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Technische Hochschule Köln,
the following W2 full-time professorship is to be filled as soon as possible:

Professorship for Conservation and Restoration of Paintings

Reference number: F021903

The Kunsthaus Zürich is one of the most important art museums in Switzerland. With its collection and an extensive range of temporary exhibitions it attracts a broad spectrum of visitors. From the first of June 2020 the conservation department is searching for a new paper conservator to complete its team.

Application deadline: 6 January 2020

This job posting is directed to conservators fluent in German or German native speakers.

Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.