The British Museum
Curator: European Renaissance to 17th Century and Waddesdon Bequest Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Full time
Permanent
£36,023 per annum
Application Deadline: 12 Noon on Friday 16 November 2018
Provisional Interview Date: 29 November 2018
The British Museum is seeking a Curator to research, document, display and augment the Museum’s collections of objects from Renaissance and seventeenth-century Europe, and to interpret their significance for the public.
Key areas of responsibility:
To generate and lead new research projects in support of the Research and Display Strategies To lead major permanent display projects To document the collections to a high standard, both cataloguing digitally on the collection database including image taking and uploading as necessary, and in paper records, and act as a beacon of good practice across the Museum To work with the relevant teams within the museum on care of the collections, and their storage, display and conservation To lead and manage the early modern curatorial team and actively develop their careers
Person Specification:
The successful candidate will be educated to degree level in a relevant humanities subject, preferably with a doctorate and post-doctoral experience. You will be fluent in either French, German or Italian and have reading knowledge of the others. You will have familiarity with at least one of the categories of material culture involved and should also have experience of display, cataloguing, publication, and public speaking as lectures, gallery talks or broadcast projects. You will have a personable manner and good communication skills, with the ability to lead and manage curatorial and research teams.
To apply and for further information:
https://bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_1233.aspx
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Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places: Experiencing the Court, 2019
The early modern court adopted and developed exemplary cultural practices where objects and spaces became central to propagating power as well as places for exchange with other powers. This combination of images, objects, and sounds confronted the senses, making a powerful and distinctive impression of the resident family and the region they represented: flickering candlelight on glass and gold vessels adorned credenze (sideboards); musical instruments announced royal entries or provided entertainment; brightly coloured tapestries covered the palace walls along with paintings of biblical or mythological stories; cabinets displayed antiquities or rarities; perfume burners permeated the air; while the smells and tastes of rare delicacies at the centre of dining tables made for a multi-sensory spectacle.
This year the Open University’s Spaces & Places conference will address the theme of ‘Experiencing the Court’ by exploring the senses and the lived experiences of courtly life, whether based in a particular residence or defined by the travels of an itinerant ruler. This annual conference is fundamentally interdisciplinary: literary, musical, architectural, artistic and religious spaces will be the subjects of enquiry, not as discrete or separate entities, but ones which overlapped, came into contact with one another, and at times were in conflict.
The conference will examine life at court and will consider the following questions:
- How can approaching the court in terms of the senses provide new methodologies for understanding each institution?
- How were medieval and early modern courtly spaces adapted and transformed through the movement of material and immaterial things?
- Which particular aspects of political, social and economic infrastructures enabled the exchange of objects and ideas?
Papers that address new methodologies, the digital humanities, object-centred enquiries, cross-cultural comparisons, or new theoretical perspectives are particularly welcome.
Please send a 150 word abstract along with a short biography to Leah Clark ([log in to unmask]) and Helen Coffey ([log in to unmask]) by 15 November 2018.
The conference will take place at the Open University’s partner institution Trinity Laban Conservatoire on 3 and 4 April 2019. As Trinity Laban’s King Charles Court was once the site of Greenwich Palace, it is a fitting venue for a conference exploring court life.
For updated information visit our website: http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/medieval-and-early-modern-research/spaces-places
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