This position is located at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (CHSDM). The employee is responsible for the preservation treatment of fragile objects in a variety of media, with particular emphasis on wooden objects and furniture in the collection of the Product Design and Decorative Arts (PDDA).
Duties
- Carries out preservation treatments on CHSDM collections in support of the long-term preservation and accessibility of the permanent collection.
- Develops proposals for the preservation component of collections maintenance projects with routine to complex housing and/or storage needs.
- Fabricates custom housings, modifies commercial housings and storage equipment, and modifies existing housings and storage equipment to address routine through the complex structural, material, and long-term preservation needs for the full range of collection objects.
- Ensures that conservation labs and other relevant work spaces are operational for the range of preservation activities to be carried out in the project.
- Records object conditions and preservation treatments in the museum’s collection database (TMS), documenting with photography as required and prioritizing future treatment requirements.
- Provides technical advice on archival preservation materials and products for use in the storage environment.
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