A Museum Director is the executive head of a large museum, managing a team of museum curators and archivists along with museum security, IT administrators, purchasing, museum aides and other personnel that empower the museum to function like any efficient business corporation, whether privately or publicly funded. In some small museums, the lone curator can often act as the museum director or head like a proprietor for a small retail store.
Museum Director CV Template
Donald F. Sinclair
Farnsworth, Bolton, England
Phone: 01204-54632
sinclair_dg@ycmail.com
Objective
A management position as a Museum Director in a large metropolitan museum
Summary of Qualification
- 18 years of experience in museums, first as a curator in a castle museum then as an assistant director for a large metropolitan museum.
- Excellent supervisor, managerial and organization skills
- Excellent verbal, writing skills in English as well as interpersonal people management skills.
Professional Experience / Career History
1998 – Present: Assistant Museum Director, British Museum
- Consult with noted anthropologists, archeologists, and historians in identifying, authenticating historical and cultural artifacts of the last 10,000 years.
- Assist developing budget and funding approvals in sponsoring excavations, maintaining and preserving museum artifacts and development of staff.
- Contract 3rd party experts in reproducing authentic pieces for mobile exhibition
1992 – 2002: Museum Curator, Antiquities, Bruce Castle Museum
- Manage in-house and 3rd party security resources to protect artifacts
- Consult with 3rd party experts in authenticating museum pieces.
- Approve all HR hiring and movements as cleared be the museum director
Education
1998 – 2000: MBA, London Business University
1996 – 1998: MS in Archeology, Institute of Historical Research
1988 – 1992: Bachelor of Arts in History, Brunell University, London
Professional reference will be furnished upon request
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