Jobs
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Royal Pavilion and Museums
Would you like the opportunity to start a career in IT and digital support while gaining practical experience in a unique museum setting?
Brighton & Hove Museums has an exciting opportunity for a Level 3 Digital Support Technician Apprentice to work with the Head of IT across our museum sites, historic buildings and public-facing services, including the Royal Pavilion.
Date posted: 16/07/2026
Deadline: 14/08/2026
Location:
BrightonCategory:
ITSalary:
£15,392Contract type:
OtherHours:
Full timeTelephone:
03000290900
Tullie
Tullie is looking for an AAT-qualified Assistant Accountant to join our Finance team at an exciting time in our development as we deliver Project Tullie - an ambitious capital programme transforming the museum and its role at the heart of Carlisle.
Date posted: 06/07/2026
Deadline: 03/08/2026
Location:
CarlisleCategory:
FinancialSalary:
£28,496 – £31,569 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
01228618719
Royal Air Force Museum
The Museum is looking to recruit an Assistant Curator- Visual Media and Archives.
Date posted: 22/06/2026
Deadline: 26/07/2026
Location:
LondonCategory:
ArchivistCuratorial
Salary:
£26,851.50Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02082052266
Science Museum Group
Do you have a commitment to research and a curator's eye for what makes an object matter?
Date posted: 15/07/2026
Deadline: 29/07/2026
Location:
Bradford, West YorkshireCategory:
Collections CareSalary:
Up to £28878 per annum + 12-month fixed termContract type:
TemporaryHours:
Full timeTelephone:
01904 685795
Tate
We are looking for an organised and proactive Team Administrator to join the Audiences team at Tate Liverpool on a part-time basis.
Date posted: 23/07/2026
Deadline: 06/08/2026
Location:
Tate Liverpool + RIBA NorthCategory:
AdministrationSalary:
£15,518.40 per annumContract type:
TemporaryHours:
Part timeTelephone:
02078874987
Royal Air Force Museum
The Museum is looking to recruit a Collections Care and Conservation Supervisor.
Date posted: 20/07/2026
Deadline: 09/08/2026
Location:
StaffordCategory:
Collections CareConservation
Salary:
£29,497.50 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02082052266
Natural History Museum
As a Collections Technician (Large Objects), you’ll play a hands-on role preparing, packing, and moving some of the Museum’s most extraordinary specimens—from giant skeletons to preserved fossilised trees. You’ll design innovative storage and transport solutions, ensuring their safety through complex, large-scale moves.
Date posted: 24/07/2026
Deadline: 02/08/2026
Location:
South KensingtonCategory:
Collections CareSalary:
£32,500 per annumContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7942 5000
National Gallery
The National Gallery has an exciting opportunity for a Communications Executive (Marketing and Campaigns) to join the Communications Team. The Gallery has ambitious goals for the growth and engagement of its audiences for the next five years, and this role will play a vital part of helping deliver projects which respond to the Audience Strategy.
Date posted: 20/07/2026
Deadline: 02/08/2026
Location:
The National GalleryCategory:
MarketingSalary:
£36,950.00 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
044 20 7747 5136
Birmingham Museums Trust
The Conservation Team at Birmingham Museums Trust (BMT) is looking for an experienced conservator to carry out preventive conservation tasks and some object conservation.
Date posted: 01/07/2026
Deadline: 03/08/2026
Location:
BirminghamCategory:
ConservationSalary:
£32,401 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
N.A
National Gallery
The National Gallery is seeking a fixed-term maternity cover Curator of Italian Paintings Before 1500. This role oversees, with other relevant Collection Curators, the care and growth of the Gallery’s Renaissance collections. They are responsible specifically for the care and display of the Italian paintings before 1500, and for associated scholarly research, publication and interpretation.
Date posted: 21/07/2026
Deadline: 26/07/2026
Location:
The National GalleryCategory:
CuratorialSalary:
£72,635.00 per annumContract type:
TemporaryHours:
Full timeTelephone:
020 7747 5136
Royal Museums Greenwich
Our Technology team are seeking a permanent Cyber Security Lead who wants to take an active role in shaping, influencing, and improving on Royal Museum Greenwich's cyber security landscape.
Date posted: 15/07/2026
Deadline: 28/07/2026
Location:
Greenwich, LondonCategory:
ITSalary:
£55,000 per annumContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02083128565
University of Oxford Gardens, Libraries & Museums
Join the Ashmolean Museum's Digital Collections team and help shape the future of one of the world's leading museum collections.
Date posted: 24/07/2026
Deadline: 28/08/2026
Location:
Oxford (OX1 2PH)Category:
DigitalSalary:
£39,424 - £47,779 per annum
University of Oxford Gardens, Libraries & Museums
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Oxford University Herbaria are working together as part of the Central England Digitisation Co-Hub, a major collaborative initiative that is transforming access to natural history collections across the UK. This exciting programme will digitise nationally significant specimens, making them accessible to researchers and the public worldwide.
Date posted: 07/07/2026
Deadline: 27/07/2026
Location:
Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW and Oxford University Herbaria, Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3ELCategory:
DigitalSalary:
£28,437 - £29,761 per annumContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
n/a
National Library of Scotland
Full time (35 hours per week), salary £77,843 per annum, civil service pension and based in Edinburgh.
Date posted: 10/07/2026
Deadline: 02/08/2026
Location:
EdinburghCategory:
ConservationCuratorial
Senior management
Salary:
77,843Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
0131 623 3718
University of Oxford Gardens, Libraries & Museums
EMLO is an Oxford-hosted catalogue of early modern correspondence, now managed within the Bodleian Libraries. You will work with the editorial team to add and improve metadata for letters in the Bodleian’s manuscript collections, identify items of research interest, and support the ongoing development of the database.
Date posted: 16/07/2026
Deadline: 27/07/2026
Location:
OxfordCategory:
EducationOther
Salary:
Grade 6
Royal Museums Greenwich
We have an exciting opportunity for an Email Marketing Specialist to join the Marketing team at Royal Museums Greenwich on a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2027.
Date posted: 23/07/2026
Deadline: 03/08/2026
Location:
Greenwich SE10 9NFCategory:
MarketingSalary:
£31,400 per annumContract type:
ContractHours:
Full timeTelephone:
+44 (0)20 8312 6543
Sir John Soane's Museum
The post will play an important part in generating and maintaining business across all revenue strands of SME, including reactive and proactive sales, marketing the Museum’s various products, the planning, execution and follow up of events and tours, identifying new potential commercial partners and additional administrative tasks related to commercial activities.
Date posted: 20/07/2026
Deadline: 10/08/2026
Location:
LondonCategory:
EventsSalary:
£30,260Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02074404273
National Army Museum
Are you passionate, dedicated and interested in a career in events? We are seeking an Events Assistant to join our team in this broad and rewarding role
Date posted: 07/07/2026
Deadline: 10/08/2026
Location:
London, ChelseaCategory:
AdministrationEvents
Salary:
£30,950Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02078812456Location:
LondonCategory:
Front of house/visitor servicesSalary:
28939Contract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02078145792Museum of London
At the heart of London, our museum is a meeting place for stories - past, present, and future. We are here to enrich understanding and appreciation of the city and all its people, offering a home where the extraordinary and the everyday collide. From the bustling markets to hidden histories, from riotous invention to quiet reflection, we celebrate London in all its richness and complexity.
Date posted: 12/06/2026
Deadline: 26/07/2026
Location:
LondonCategory:
Front of house/visitor servicesSalary:
£34,631 per annum plus benefitsContract type:
PermanentHours:
Full timeTelephone:
02078145611