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Digital Asset Specialist, Colonial Williamsburg, (Williamsburg, VA)

Job Description: The Digital Asset Specialist is a key member of the Media Collections team supporting the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. This position is responsible for the organization, stewardship, and accessibility of the Foundation’s digital media assets through the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. Working closely with the Media Collections Manager and Photographer/Digital Imaging Specialist, the…


Part-Time Visitor Services Representative, Nichols House Museum, (Boston, MA)

Job Description: Looking for hands-on public history experience? Passionate about turn-of-the-20th-century history?Enjoy sharing stories of the Arts and Crafts movement, Boston history, and women’s lives? Join the staff at the Nichols House Museum!Visitor Services Representatives lead high-quality tours of the Nichols House Museum for diverseaudiences. They are also responsible for admission and gift shop sales,…


Associate Reference Librarian, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA)

Description The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum is among the oldest libraries in the United States. Rich primary and secondary sources – including vast quantities of manuscripts, books, photographs, maps, broadsides and ephemera – make it a fruitful location for research and discovery. The library is based at PEM’s James B. and Mary…


Manuscript Processing and Digitization Assistant, Peabody Essex Museum (Rowley, MA)

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…


Collections Manager and Registrar, Hingham Historical Society, (Hingham, MA)

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…


Summer Internships, New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford, MA)

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…


Steele Internship Program, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, (Cooperstown, NY)

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…


Collections Inventory Supervisor, The Strong: National Museum of Play, (Rochester, NY)

Job Description:The Strong Museum, based in Rochester, NY, is collaborating with Hasbro to create a comprehensiveinventory of Hasbro’s product archive which includes toys, dolls, board games, and other historicalmaterials related to play. The collections inventory supervisor will oversee and be a member of a team offour people who perform the inventory over a period of…


Collections Inventory Specialist, The Strong: National Museum of Play, (Rochester, NY)

Job Description:The Strong Museum, based in Rochester, NY, is collaborating with Hasbro to create a comprehensiveinventory of Hasbro’s product archive which includes toys, dolls, board games, and other historicalmaterials related to play. The collections inventory specialist will be part of a team of four people whoperform the inventory over a period of 9 months. This…


Archivist, King Ranch Museum and Archives (Kingsville, TX)

Job Description King Ranch, Inc. seeks an experienced and innovative Archivist to manage and provide access toits diverse archival and material culture collections. Reporting to the Vice President ofShareholder Relations, this role collaborates with the Assistant Archivist and other Museum staffto enhance the collection’s interpretation and contribute to exhibitions and outreach. The idealcandidate will help…