Careers – Exhibit Curator
Exhibit Curator
Are you a museum curator with experience putting together a variety of physical and interactive exhibits? Are you looking for new opportunities outside of museums?
Heritage Werks specializes in archival services and heritage communications. Our clients include professional sports teams, luxury and fashion brands, and leading corporations in health, finance, entertainment and technology. We’re growing rapidly and have a great opportunity based out of our Atlanta metro area headquarters.
Responsibilities:
- Lead efforts to communicate our clients’ heritage in physical and digital exhibits including working closely with historians, archivists, researchers and writers to develop exhibit content and shape exhibit storytelling
- Advise clients on telling their stories through imagery and artifacts in physical and digital spaces including stadiums, arenas, corporate offices, on touch screens, etc.
- Coordinate exhibit fabrication and execution including coordinating production with outside vendors and internal stakeholders
- Identify external content, as needed, and lead outreach and negotiation for loans and licensing
- Help develop new deliverables and contribute to setting SOPs and best practices for exhibit execution, etc.
- Collaborate closely with historians, archivists, client services staff, digital team and company leadership, as well as clients and their creative partners
- Additional duties, as assigned
- Travel required, occasionally on short notice
- Reports to the Director of Content & Communications
Qualifications:
- At least ten years experience in a curatorial/exhibit role in museum environment
- M.A. in history, museum studies or related field preferred but combination of B.A. and work experience will be considered
- Digital exhibit and/or web content experience a must
- Experience managing fabrication and production vendors a must
- Ideally a passionate sports fan with general knowledge of multiple sports
- Experience with image rights a plus
- Some kind of strategic communications or corporate experience a plus
- Must be able to work on site at our Suwanee, Georgia, headquarters in the Atlanta metro area