The Corning Museum of Glass seeks an Interim Director of Collections to provide leadership, stewardship, and strategy during a 2-3-year transition to new Curatorial and Collections departments’ leadership. Join a talented and dedicated team, ensuring a smooth transition to the next generation of department leaders, who may be advanced from within. The Interim Director of Collections will be a seasoned team-builder and mentor with significant leadership and management experience to oversee daily operations of the Exhibitions, Collections, Conservation and Publications sectors of the museum. As a 2-3--year appointment, there is flexibility in the candidate’s background. However s/he should have significant experience leading a large museum curatorial or collection department, or as a former museum director or senior museum executive familiar with collection management and curatorial practice. Experience with scholarly publications and editing is a plus. The Interim Director of Collections is a member of the Museum’s leadership team reporting to President and Executive Director Karol Wight. The Corning Museum of Glass is the foremost museum in the world dedicated to the art, history, science and technology of glass and glassmaking and holds the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of glass, spanning 35 centuries and numbering more than 60,000 objects dating from ancient to contemporary international glass. The campus’s architecturally distinctive buildings total 300,000 square feet (see: www.cmog.org/about/architecture), and the Museum annually welcomes almost 460,000 visitors from around the globe. Full qualifications/how to apply: www.museum-search.com. Deadline 4/16/18 to [log in to unmask] EOE. Nominations welcome.

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