Internship at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

One Year Fellowship in Conservation and Collection Management
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

As part of its Masters programme in Museology, the Sainsbury Centre
<URL:http://www.scva.org.uk> offers successful MA Museology
applicants the chance to apply for a Training Fellowship within the
Centre.  The Fellowship in Conservation and Collection Management

will provide an introduction to the practical aspects of managing
museum collections such as cataloguing and database work as well as
preventive conservation strategies. More specific areas of work will
include: Auditing and condition surveying, accessioning and
de-accessioning, loans in and out of the Collection, temporary
exhibitions, environmental monitoring, preservation theory. The
Fellowship is undertaken in conjunction with the Masters programme
and includes 1-2 days of teaching per week with the rest of the week
devoted to museum work. The fellowship is supported by a bursary and
is aimed at students who wish to interact with the museum object and
will allow the unrivalled access to the diverse Collections held at
the Sainsbury Centre.  Fellowships are also available in the
following areas: Curatorship, Education and Learning and Museum
Marketing.  For further information regarding the Fellowship please
contact Calvin Winner and more general enquiries regarding the
Master programme in Museology to Rachel Carr <r.carr<-at->uea<.>ac<.>uk>.

Calvin Winner
Head of Conservation
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK


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