Conservator (temporary) at the Vasa Museum

The Swedish National Maritime and Transport History Museums are recruiting a temporary conservator for the objects unit at the Vasa Museum. The conservator identifies conservation needs and carries out remedial and preventive conservation on the museum's collections, working with curators, exhibition producers and technicians.

In exhibition projects the conservator contributes material and object knowledge, works on mounting solutions and prepares objects for display, and may give conservation-focused tours. Applicants need at least a bachelor's in conservation of archaeological or cultural-historical material, experience of remedial and preventive work and object mounting, and good Swedish and English. The post is full time for six months or longer; pay is not stated.