The Freer|Sackler is looking for a qualified individual to create database records for the Freer Gallery of Art's exhibitions from 1923 to 1988.
When it opened in 1923, The Freer Gallery of Art became the Smithsonian's first art museum. The Freer established itself as an important culture resource in Washington DC, and became a center for scholarship worldwide, and the place where many visitors discovered Asian art for the first time. Detailed gallery installation diagrams exist for every Freer exhibition from 1923 until 1988, when the Gallery closed for renovation. These historical documents provide a record of changing scholarship and public interest in Asian art. They also include important highlights of the Smithsonian's history, including records of the Freer Inaugural and Smithsonian Centennial exhibitions. The diagrams are archived in two books and 29 sets of folders containing 20-40 pages of diagrams each. Organized by gallery location, including the four corridors and two entrances, they document which objects were displayed together; rotations of objects within the gallery space, and even provide folio numbers for manuscripts exhibited and sometimes notations about the context of a show. The project will require accurate, consistent data entry of each exhibition's objects, dates, periodic rotations, gallery locations, and other information into the museum's collections management system. After completion of the data entry from the exhibition diagrams, the work will shift to focus on the linking of incomplete Freer and Sackler exhibition records from 1989 to the present to their related collection and loan objects. Payment will be $20.63/hour. Work may be part-time at no fewer than 20 hours/week, on the premises of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Prior experience performing data entry is required. Experience with the collections management system TMS (The Museum System) is a plus. Please send a resume and short cover letter, or inquiries, to: Jeffrey Smith Assistant Registrar for Collections Information Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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