Museum Positions
Posted February 6, 2026
Position Overview: The MIT Museum seeks a Collections Assistant to support campus loan initiatives and collections stewardship activities. This position will assist with the relocation, documentation, and general care of the museum’s artifacts. Responsibilities include preparing loan renewals, rehousing objects, and conducting condition assessments. This is a temporary, full-time position (35 hours per week) for…
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Posted February 4, 2026
Description The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center is a nonprofit subsidiary of the Knights of Columbus. It advances the vision and example of Knights of Columbus founder Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890). The Center welcomes visitors to learn about his life and legacy, imitate his generous outreach to the needy and marginalized, and invoke his heavenly…
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Posted February 4, 2026
Description The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience is hiring an archivist who will be responsible for the organization, care, and sharing of its growing archival collection, as well as overseeing the daily operation of the museum’s new Chapman Family Research Center. As part of a small, but dedicated museum staff, the person in this…
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Posted February 3, 2026
Description The Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library seeks a temporary, project-based Manuscript Processing and Digitization Assistant to aid in the photography of manuscript material from the Phillips Library’s collections. Digitized materials come from the Pingree Family Papers, a substantial archival collection of personal manuscripts and business records donated to the Phillips Library by the descendants…
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Posted January 29, 2026
Job Description: The Collections Manager & Registrar is responsible for the professional stewardship, organization, and care of the Hingham Historical Society’s collections, archives, and library. Reporting to the Executive Director, this position works closely with the Board Collections Committee and key volunteers to oversee accession and deaccession decisions, registration, cataloging, documentation, movement, safekeeping, storage, and…
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Posted January 6, 2026
Position Title: Archives and Digital Asset Preservation Technician – 90th Anniversary Department: Curatorial Reports to: Curator of Collections Position Status: Part Time, Hourly Non-Exempt, At Will (fixed term) Work Schedule: 15–22.5 hours per week, 12–18 weeksNumber of Positions: One (1), starting early- to mid-February 2026 Primary Work Location: ICA Watershed, 256 Marginal St, East Boston, MA 02128 ICA/Boston Archives and Digital Asset…
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Posted January 6, 2026
The New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) was founded in 1903 as the regional historical society, has a diverse collection of over one million items, 18 galleries spanning 35,000 square feet, and about 100,000 visitors per year. NBWM annually organizes a dynamic and rigorous eight-week summer internship program, open to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students…
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Posted January 6, 2026
Description The Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library seeks a part-time Reference Assistant to aid the functions of the reference department. The library is an active place, and the incumbent will interact with in-person visitors, distant patrons, and internal museum staff. Duties will include monitoring the reading room (assist patron orientation and research, communicate and enforce…
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Posted December 10, 2025
Job Description: The Hadley Historical Society is seeking to hire a part-time archivist to implement collection management recommendations of the 2025 Strategic Assessment Report prepared for the Society by the State Archivist Office. The Hadley Historical Society is a small, non-profit 501(3)C organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of Hadley, Massachusetts. The work…
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Posted December 4, 2025
Description The Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program is a ten week experience that offers college students an opportunity to work alongside Museum and Library staff to gain hands-on professional training in a field that closely matches his/her major. Interns craft leadership and communication skills by attending career seminars hosted by Hall of Fame staff…
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