Museography Technical Assistant

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Lisboa; Vor Ort; EUR 18.000 - 30.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian within the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation seeks a Museography Technical Assistant in Lisbon. Responsibilities include moving and handling artworks, organizing reserves, and ensuring safety and conservation standards are met during installations.

The role requires a graduate degree in relevant arts fields, 2–3 years' experience, strong technical skills, and fluency in Portuguese and English. Permanent contract; on-site position at the Lisbon campus.

Qualifikationen

• Graduate degree in Fine Arts, Sculpture, Museography or Conservation.
• 2–3 years' experience in similar responsibilities.
• Strong maintenance and preventive conservation skills.
• Attention to detail with good communication and time management.

Aufgaben

• Manage movement of artworks per safety rules during requests.
• Organize and maintain reserves and ensure proper location of works.
• Implement preventive conservation schedules and order materials as needed.
• Support curators and researchers when moving and locating art works.
• Prepare artworks for lending and exhibition display with proper packaging and framing.

Kenntnisse

Art handling maintenance

Conservation expertise

Technical art handling

Detail-oriented

Communication skills

Time management

Proactivity

Portuguese and English

Ausbildung

Graduate degree in Fine Arts / Museography

Tools

Art handling equipment

Jobbeschreibung

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a private institution whose main purpose is to improve people’s quality of life through art, charity, science, and education. The Foundation carries out its activities from its headquarters in Lisbon, and from its branches in Paris and London.

The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian is a centre for art and culture that houses the largest collection of Portuguese modern and contemporary art to date. With a renovated building and a new extension of its Garden, CAM’s mission is to harness the transformative power of art to promote both social and individual change.

We are looking for a Museography Technical Assistant to join the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian team, who shall take responsibility for ensuring the correct and effective movement, setting up and maintenance of art works in reserves and exhibitions, ensuring compliance with the safety and quality standards and rules in force at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Contractual Conditions: Permanent Employment Contract

Main Responsibilities

• Ensure that the movement of works of art is carried out whenever requested, in accordance with the standards and safety rules in force.
• Ensure the organisation and maintenance of Reserves, carrying out the movements of the Collection, plus all the required arrangements in order to ensure that all works are accessible and in the right location, always complying with all safety standards for their best preservation.
• Ensure the practical implementation of the preventive conservation schedule. Carry out a survey of all materials required for the preventive conservation of all works of art, ordering the necessary materials whenever required.
• Support curators and researchers in the study of art works, whenever required, namely when moving and locating works of art.
• Prepare the art works to be lent, carrying out or supporting their packaging in accordance with the standards and rules in force, in order to always preserve the condition of the piece of art work and its safe transportation.
• Prepare the art works for being displayed at exhibitions, ensuring operations such as assembling hinges, passepartouts and framing.
• Carry out a survey of all the materials required for setting up temporary exhibitions, placing orders for materials and constructing exhibition supports, whenever required, plus installing works of art at exhibitions, ensuring compliance with all quality and safety rules and standards.
• Take responsibility for receiving, packaging and identifying new acquisitions for the Collection.

Required Skills

• Graduate degree in Fine Arts, Sculpture, Equipment Design, Museography, Conservation or similar areas;
• Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in similar responsibilities;
• Excellent skills in terms of maintenance and preventive conservation of works of art, as well as technical mastery of the various items;
• Strictness and attention to detail, plus good communication, time management, and proactivity skills;
• Good command of written and spoken Portuguese and English language.

The Gulbenkian Foundation strives to attract and retain talent by recognising people as our most important asset in fulfilling the Foundation’s mission. Our organisational culture is grounded in the institution’s values, encouraging motivated teams to thrive in a healthy and inclusive workplace.

We welcome applications from all people, regardless of their age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, or disability, in particular of those who identify with underrepresented groups in the various initiatives promoted by the Foundation.

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