Employment Information
- Post ID: 128750900
- Open Date: April 3, 2025
- Close Date: May 17, 2025
- Organization: Billy Bishop Museum, A National Historic Site
- Sector: Hospitality & Tourism
- Business Location:Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
- Total Views: 201
- Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 20 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/owen-sound/128750900/curatorial-assistant/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $18.70 per hour / 35 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: : 2025-05-05Enddate: 2025-10-24
- Apply by: email to [email protected]
- Education: Bachelor's degree
Job Description
Tasks
- Assist in the research, handling and storage of artifacts
- Assist with the planning and development of travelling exhibitions and special events
- Classify and assign registration numbers to artifacts and supervise inventory control
- Conduct guided tours of museums, gallery exhibitions and historical, heritage and other sites, answer inquiries and provide information
- Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
- Fabricate custom frames, measure and cut mats, mat enhancements and glass, and mount paintings, photographs and other art work
- Protect and care for cultural artifacts and collections during exhibitions, while in transit and in storage
Experience and specialization
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Office
- InDesign
- MS Excel
Technical experience
- Cataloging
- Curatorial assisting
- Exhibit preparation
- Interpretation/guiding
- Registration
Exhibit preparation experience
- Display cases
- Lighting
- Mounting/installing objects
- Matting prints and drawings
- Framing paintings, photographs etc.
Area of specialization
- Arms and military objects
Additional information
Security and safety
- Bondable
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver’s licence
- Own vehicle
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Organized
- Team player