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Subject: Position at Fowler Museum

Position at Fowler Museum

From: Jo Hill <jhill>
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Assistant or Associate Conservator
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History invites applications for
a full-time Assistant or Associate Conservator position.  Under the
direction of the Director of Conservation, the new conservator
assists in general conservation activities and the specific
conservation care of a 150,000 piece ethnographic collection of
artifacts and textiles.  The successful candidate will assume full
responsibility for various preventive conservation practices, as
well as much of the exhibition- and loan-related examination,
documentation, and treatment of a wide variety of cultural artifacts
and textiles requiring such attention as structural stabilization,
cleaning, and/or visual integration.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, and the
position is open for an immediate start-date.  Minimum eligibility
requirement is graduation from a recognized conservation training
program, with specialization in objects conservation (or similar
training or experience).

Interested candidates may send a letter of interest and curriculum
vitae. Selected applicants will be asked to provide three
professional references (or contact information thereof) and two
conservation-related reports representative of the applicant's work.
To learn about the Fowler Museum's collections and programming,
consult <URL:http://www.fmch.ucla.edu/>. Complete job descriptions,
salary ranges, benefit reviews, and other specific materials are
available upon request.  For additional information about the
conservator position, please contact:

    Jo Hill, Director of Conservation
    UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
    Box 951549
    2880 Fowler Building
    Los Angeles, California 90049-8149
    310-825-1146
    Fax: 310-206-7007
    jhill [at] arts__ucla__edu

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