Assistant or Associate Curator, History

Job description

Curator, History Commensurate on experience, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) seeks an Assistant Curator, Associate Curator , OR Curator to lead its research on the history of Southern California, oversee its collections, and provide content for a variety of public programs. The successful candidate will activate the vast historical holdings of NHMLAC through collection-based research and be a leader in the care, growth, and use of museum collections with demonstrated interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations. The NHMLAC’s History collection is one of the institution’s founding collections, highlighting the influence of California on the rest of the nation. NHMLAC–originally established as the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art–was the primary museum in Los Angeles for several decades, and objects from a variety of industries developing in Los Angeles (Motion Pictures, Aviation, etc.) found their way into the collections. It includes a material culture collection of approximately half a million three-dimensional objects (from paintings to arms to motor vehicles to textiles) and the Seaver Center for Western History Researc...