Senior Curatorial Assistant

• Supports the Chief curator in conceiving and implementing the displays for the wing, including providing

• support in the management of rotations.

• Supports the Preventative Conservation team on the weekly gallery overview of the permanent and temporary collections within the wing, ensuring follow-up arrangements in the event of potential technical and/or conservation requirements.

• Develops and maintains the registration processes, including cataloguing and record-keeping of the wing's collections to ensure ease of access to the repository of information to answer applicable questions on the wings collections and activities.

• Researches, develops and updates displays labels, panels and narrative information for the wing's collections and loans

• Follows up in the production of curatorial, marketing, educational, cultural publications and exhibition-related materials including, but not limited to, wall texts, extended object labels and multimedia content.

• Identifies the resources required to ensure that the curatorial processes and safeguards are appropriately performed and in line with health, safety and quality standards of the wing's collection.

• Leading public and private tours and educational workshops conducted on the wing's collections.

• Contributes to preventative and curative conservation actions within the Company’s collections.

• Continuous research into artefacts and collections of the modern and contemporary period, contributing to the knowledge, understanding and techniques on current wing’s collections within Company.

• Supports the acquisition process following international standards.

• Commits to and undertakes appropriate training to ensure continious knowledge update on the collections within the wing.

• 5-6 years post graduate experience

• Experience as Curator Assistant in a museum or museum related institution

• Fluency in Arabic and English

• Must have Master’s Degree in History of Art, Archelogy, Museology or Museum studies

• Experience as Curator Assistant in a museum or museum related institution is preferred

Al Nahiya Group