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Museum Curator (Art)
National Gallery of Art · Posted 64 days ago
About the Role
The National Gallery of Art welcomes all people to explore art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Millions of people come through our doors each year, with even more online, making us one of the most visited art museums in the world. Our renowned collection includes over 160,000 works of art, from the ancient world to today. Admission to the West and East Buildings, Sculpture Garden, special exhibitions, and public programs is always free.
What You'll Do
- →The National Gallery of Art serves the United States in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.
- →The Division of Paintings and Sculpture is responsible for the Gallery's acquisition, care, study, and display of a world-class collection of European and American paintings and sculpture.
- →The incumbent is an established scholar and recognized connoisseur and serves as Museum Curator (Head of Northern European Paintings) reporting to the Head of European and American Art.
- →Duties for this position include.
- →Proposing, organizing, and coordinating or overseeing the development of major and minor exhibitions of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque paintings both from the Gallery's holdings and from other institutions and private collections.
- →Managing over 370 Old Master paintings in the permanent collection.
- →Performing and/or delegating scholarly and technical work to ensure thorough, up-to-date cataloguing, safe and orderly storage, and documentation of Northern European paintings belonging to the Gallery or proposed as gifts, purchases and loans.
- →Ensuring timely and accurate maintenance of The Museum System (TMS) database entries for permanent collections and exhibition objects.
- →Evaluating loan requests from other institutions to borrow paintings for special exhibitions; making recommendations for loan decisions and special loan conditions.
- →Performing and overseeing advanced scholarly research on Northern European Renaissance and Baroque paintings in the collection and on prospective acquisitions, or in the areas of special expertise, and for inclusion or examination in exhibitions, scholarly journals, Gallery publications, lectures, and symposia.
Requirements
- ✓Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions viewable on OPM Website.
- ✓It is your responsibility to ensure that you submit appropriate documentation prior to the closing date.
- ✓Your resume serves as the basis for qualification determinations and must highlight your most relevant and significant experience as it relates to this job announcement.
- ✓Be clear and specific when describing your work history since human resources cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.
- ✓Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
- ✓Your resume must include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week.
- ✓This position has an education requirement.
- ✓Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓Foreign education must be reviewed by an organization recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website.
- ✓You must be a United States Citizen.
Benefits
- ★The Federal Government offers a comprehensive benefits package.
- ★Flexible Spending Accounts - http://www.fsafeds.com/ Health Insurance - http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/index.asp Leave - http://www.opm.gov/oca/leave/index.asp Life Insurance - http://www.opm.gov/insure/life/index.asp Retirement Program - http://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/
Personality Fit
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Job ID: 043c0b48-0475-41c7-8818-2c38a5b560b6
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