Curatorial Assistant - Textile Museum of Canada

Job description:
General Description:

The Curatorial Assistant is responsible for providing logistical, research, administrative and technical support to the Curatorial Department. The Assistant will play a key role in project research, development and coordination, creating planning documents, preparing digital design files, contributing to the maintenance of a data base and the ongoing content development of TMC Web sites. The Assistant will play an important support role in day-to-day office tasks, assisting with written correspondence, business contracts, record keeping and filing. The position reports to the Curatorial Director and works directly with all members of the Curatorial team.

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Closes Sept 11, 2009

Costume Collection Assistant

Costume Collection Assistant
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario.

Job Title: Costume Collection Assistant
Institution / Organization: Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Closing Date: May 15, 2009
E-Mail: jennifer.nicoll@queensu.ca
Fax number: 613-533-6765
Salary range: $14.00/hour
Web link to Institution http://www.aeac.ca/

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Mississippi Valley Textile Museum Summer Jobs

The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte, Ontario is currently hiring for 5 summer student positions. Check out their postings on CHIN:
Collections Assistant (summer student)
Exhibition Research & Planning Assistant (summer student)
Historical Researcher & Interpreter (summer student)
Cataloguing Technician (summer student)
Camp Assistant (summer student)

Curator, Mactaggart Art Collection, U of A

Job Title: Curator, Mactaggart Art Collection
Institution / Organization: University of Alberta Museums
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Closing Date: May 15, 2009
E-Mail: Janine.Andrews@ualberta.ca
Fax number: 780-492-6185
Web link to Institution http://www.museums.ualberta.ca

Job description:
The University of Alberta is seeking a Curator for the Mactaggart Art Collection, a world-renowned Asian Art collection. The University of Alberta is one of the largest collecting institutions in Canada with more than 17 million objects and specimens that comprise the University of Alberta Museums. The Mactaggart Art Collection is one of 35 collections that comprise the University of Alberta Museums which are integral to the University's teaching, research, discovery learning and access programs, and it is the newest addition to our 100-year history of collecting.

The Mactaggart Art Collection consists of works of art and textiles from a range of countries, time periods and traditions. More than 600 textiles, costumes and related artifacts date from the Song (960-1279), Ming (1314-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties. The art collection is comprised of hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, albums and engravings with great strength in Qing court paintings. This collection situates the University of Alberta Art Collection within the same company as only a handful of other museums in the world with similar collections. For more information, please refer to http://museums.ualberta.ca/mactaggart/

From: http://www.museums.ca