DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION – STANLEY MUSEUM, KINGFIELD, MAINE

Job description: The Director of Education plans, directs and 
supervises the interpretive programs of the Stanley Museum within the 
parameters of the museum’s mission and strategic plan, insuring quality 
program delivery in reaching strategic goals and objectives.
Requirements: Along with administrative strength and experience, the 
Director of Education should have a Bachelor’s degree in American or 
Art History with a minor in Education, or an advanced degree in Museum 
Studies and experience in educational programming at a museum. A 
Master’s degree is preferred but not required.
Management and compensation: The Director of Education reports to the 
C.E.O./Executive Director. This is an opportunity to exercise 
leadership in programming and museum management in a small museum 
serving an audience ranging from international to the underserved 
rural. Salary commensurate with experience;  benefits included. EOE.
Location: The Stanley Museum is located in Kingfield, the birthplace of 
the Stanleys, a town of 1,200 in western Maine and one of Maine’s most 
picturesque mountain villages. The area is known for Sugarloaf USA ski 
area, the Rangeley Lakes, fishing, hunting and inland Maine’s quiet, 
rural, mountainous beauty. It is one hour from Augusta, the state 
capital, two hours from Portland, four hours each from Boston, Montreal 
and Quebec City.
Collection and Program focus: Best known for the Stanley Steamer 
automobile, the Stanley Museum also collects, exhibits and programs 
around Stanley art, from F.E. Stanley’s invention of the airbrush and 
his fine art portraits to his sister Chansonetta Stanley Emmons’s 
remarkable photography and her daughter’s impressionist paintings; the 
brothers’ Stanley Dry Plate Co. history; violins made by three family 
members; the intellectual and social history of the era; and the 
creativity and Yankee ingenuity for which the Stanley family is noted. 
See also www.stanleymuseum.org.
Please respond with cover letter and resume to Susan S. Davis, email 
[log in to unmask], tel. 207-265-2729, cell 207-491-2509. I 
will be attending AAM in Boston April 27-30, and could arrange to meet 
with prospective candidates there.
STANLEY MUSEUM MISSION
The Stanley Museum keeps and shares the traditions of Yankee ingenuity 
and creativity as exemplified by the Stanley Family in order to inspire 
those values in children and adults.

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