Museum Specialist

Description:

This position is located in the Conservation team within the Collections Management Department at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG), Smithsonian Institution (SI).

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture and provides a national platform for the art and artists of our time. We seek to share the transformative power of modern and contemporary art with audiences at all levels of awareness and understanding by creating meaningful personal experiences in which art, artists, audiences, and ideas converge. We enhance public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through acquisition, exhibitions, education and public programs, conservation, and research.

The Department is devoted to the care and management of the collection of modern and contemporary art. The incumbent supplies skilled technical support in the preparation and fabrication of mounts and framing enclosures, and maintenance of museum objects while on exhibition and in storage areas at the museum. This position is supervised by the Head Conservator.