The British Museum
Full Time
Fixed-Term (31 December 2025)
£37,210 per annum
Part Time 2.5 days per week
Fixed-Term (23 months)
£37,210 per annum, pro-rata
Application Deadline: 12pm (midday) on 29 August
Please specify in your application your preferred contract type and length.
The British Museum is seeking an International Touring Exhibitions Curator to join the International Engagement department. The main purpose of this role is to curate international touring exhibitions from the Museum’s Egypt and Sudan collection and support the International Engagement team in the marketing and delivery of these exhibitions to venues.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- To continue to develop and curate touring exhibitions for future venues.
- To suggest new exhibition ideas (concepts for projects with, and without, objects) for consideration as potential touring exhibitions.
- To co-curate other British Museum exhibitions with other curators/colleagues, as required.
- In developing and curating exhibitions:
- To liaise with curatorial departments to ensure the objects can travel, and to work with curators to obtain all necessary curatorial information relating to the objects; to write introductory essays for the catalogues, object labels and text panels (or liaise with curatorial colleagues and co-ordinate the delivery of information by those colleagues, as required).
- To work within the deadlines agreed with the Head of International Touring Exhibitions or relevant Project Manager to provide concepts, images, essays, labels, texts and other information about the content of exhibitions that may be required.
- To support efforts to market exhibitions to potential host venues through the provision of content for marketing materials, advice on content-related issues, meetings with possible hosts, giving oral presentations about relevant exhibitions and tours of the museum galleries.
- To visit potential host venues in support of efforts to approve and plan their participation in exhibition tours, if required.
- To review design plans produced by host venues.
- To review and edit text provided by host venues for inclusion in the catalogue or exhibition.
- To review marketing material proposed by host venues.
- To attend exhibition opening events and, where required, to provide speeches, tours, lectures and interviews to the media in connection with the relevant exhibition.
- To participate in other programming around the relevant exhibition, as required.
Person Specification:
- Education: university graduate or equivalent in relevant subject.
- Specific technical/professional skills & experience: Office suite (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to at least an intermediate level; ability to write essays and academic texts in relation to exhibition subjects; experience of engaging the public in the relevant field.
- Work experience: experience of working in a museum environment; strong knowledge of the British Museum’s collection.
- Specific managerial skills: ability to work independently, with self-discipline, to meet project deadlines; ability to function effectively as part of the broader team.
- Specific interpersonal skills: open, effective communicator with good spoken and written English; ability to influence people to achieve buy-in to a project; ability to response the British Museum in an appropriate manner to external parties, potentially from different countries and cultures; ability to use tact, sensitivity and a diplomatic approach with all stakeholders; ability to work on several projects at any one time.
- Publications record: publications in peer reviewed journals or in book form.
