Museums in Cambridgeshire News 1 (19 February 2015)

Regular round-up of news for Museums in Cambridgeshire from Gordon Chancellor, Museums Partnership Officer.

There are some vacancies to be filled:

  1. The stained Glass Museum are looking for a Visitor Services Assistant, closing date 28 February.
  2. Welwyn Hatfield are looking for a Curator, closing date 8 March – job advert and description.
  3. The Fitzwilliam is looking for a Departmental Technician, Antiquities, closing date 16 March.
  4. The Fitzwilliam are also looking for a website migration content editor, closing date 9 March.

Norfolk Museums (Norwich and Yarmouth) have another batch of items to dispose of. If you are interested, please direct all enquiries to Wayne Holland, Collections Development Assistant, 01603 222562 wayne.holland@norfolk.gov.uk. Please note that the list is said to be ‘provisional’.

The British Museum has an interesting looking free conference on ‘The Curator of the Future’ on 13 April.

Finally, can I draw your attention to some new resources called ‘Object Lessons’ which have been prepared by the Social History Curators Group on http://shcg.org.uk/object-lessons?