Museum Assistant-Curatorial

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As a student employee with the Arts, Culture, and Community Initiatives Division of the Township of Langley, the successful incumbent will work on short-term projects at the Langley Centennial Museum and Exhibition Centre. Summer Curatorial projects will involve the care, establishment of proper intellectual control, and effective use of the museum’s collections. A manner of professionalism is required for the Museum to connect with people in our community and beyond, by making the artifacts and information resources more accessible, useful, and valuable for our visitors and research clientele.

The Museum Assistant – Curatorial will support the following project goals:
 Assist with a temporary exhibition change involving dismantling the existing displays and mounting the new displays; preparing exhibition mounts, participating in the review, editing, and mounting of label copy, photo, and other documentation of the installation
 Assist with research and development for future exhibits
 Assist with marketing current and upcoming exhibits
 Assist with refurbishing a permanent exhibition, including monitoring visitor use of existing exhibits
 Assist with special events, including preparations, set-up, take-down, and staffing of an exhibit opening, three local parades, and the museum’s major public event on Canada Day
 Continue describing and digitizing the museum’s growing oral history collection
 Responsibility to ensure oral history data was updated properly during a data migration, correct any errors or omissions
 Carry out proper re-housing for oral history storage
 Create ideas to integrate the oral history collection onto our website
 Conduct collections inventories
 Assist in supervising volunteers in curatorial tasks, including inventory and cleaning
 Curatorial outreach projects including providing a curatorial presence in the exhibit galleries for interacting with visitors by both giving and receiving information on our displays, researching focused collecting initiatives, etc.
 Assist with day-to-day museum operations including opening and closing, participating with other colleagues to occasionally staff the reception desk for lunch coverage and Gift Shop retail sales

If you wish to pursue this exciting career in a growing community, please apply directly through our site at tol.ca/careers.

This competition will not close until the position is filled. We appreciate all applications; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

The Langley Centennial Museum & Exhibition Centre is a community museum located in Fort Langley, British Columbia. More information is available at http://museum.tol.ca 9135 King Street, Fort Langley, BC