Crdip Curatorial Assistant

Description:

Position Overview: The ACE member will assist the park's curatorial staff with routine housekeeping and environmental monitoring in exhibit spaces and collection storage areas weekly and monthly to ensure the preservation and protection of museum collections and to enhance the visitor experience to the site. The member will learn to safely handle, label, and document museum objects while rehousing archeology collections to meet NPS standards. The member will also research storage options and create a processing/cataloging plan for the extensive Nathan Manufacturing Company pattern parts collection. The collection relates to the companies' archives, and consists of molds, templates, and patterns used in the manufacturing and maintenance of steam locomotives. The ACE member will also assist museum staff with:

• Completing monthly entries into databases that document important environmental data used by park staff to make management decisions regarding the preservation and protection of the park's museum collections.
• A project to rehouse archeology collections to reunite artifacts with their original parent accessions was begun in response to a recommendation made in the park's 2019 Collection Management Plan (CMP).
• The ACE member will provide the park with storage options for the Nathan Manufacturing Company collection and a plan forward for processing/cataloging the objects.