Fellowship at Historic New England

Post-graduate Mellon Conservation Fellowship in objects/wooden
    artifacts conservation
Historic New England

Historic New England is seeking applications for a 12-month
postgraduate fellowship in conservation beginning in the fall of
2016.

This fellowship provides an excellent opportunity to gain
considerable hands-on experience in the examination, care and
treatment of the wide variety of objects in the collection of
Historic New England.  The successful candidate will work closely
with the objects and wooden artifacts conservators in a spacious,
productive and well-equipped conservation laboratory.  In addition
to a full range of lab based treatment work, conservators at
Historic New England are actively involved in collections care and
on-site conservation work at many of our historic houses.

Special projects for the coming year include treatment of objects
and furniture and on-site work preparing for the opening of the
Eustis Estate Museum and Study Center in Milton, Massachusetts.  An
associated project will include installation of jewelry and
supporting objects for the upcoming exhibition Mementos: Jewelry of
Life and Love.  Other tasks may involve collections surveys,
addressing environmental issues, speaking at public programs, and
preventive care activities at individual house museums.

Candidates must be graduates of a conservation training program or
have equivalent experience.  International candidates must currently
possess a visa to work in the United States.  The stipend for the
fellowship is $27,500 a year plus health care benefits.  Additional
funding is available for travel and research.  The fellowship is
based at Historic New England's Conservation Laboratory located in
the Haverhill facility in Haverhill, Massachusetts, approximately 45
minutes north of Boston.

Historic New England, the oldest and largest regional preservation
organization in the United States, owns and operates 36 historic
house museums in five states, from Rhode Island to mid-coast Maine.
With more than 110,000 objects, Historic New England has the most
comprehensive and best documented collection of New England
decorative arts and household furnishings in the country.  These
collections, which date from the mid-seventeenth to the twenty-first
centuries, include a range of domestic items including European and
American decorative arts, furniture, textiles, wallpaper and
paintings, as well as cooking, lighting and heating equipment.

Applications will be accepted through March 23, 2016.

Please send curriculum vitae and cover letter to
jobs<-at->historicnewengland<.>org or mail to

    Historic New England
    151 Essex Street
    Haverhill MA 01832
    Attn: Michaela Neiro, Objects Conservator

Historic New England is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Michaela Z. Neiro
Objects Conservator
Historic New England
151 Essex Street
Haverhill MA 01832
617-994-6635


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