Armagh Robinson Library is seeking to appoint a Curatorial Research Fellow on a 15-month contract to work on the Library’s collection of c.4,500 rare and significant early modern prints and engravings.

Essential Criteria
– Have experience of working with and researching Western prints of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (for instance, through working within a library or museum, or within the Prints Department of an Auction House).
– A scholarly record of research publications in art history or evidence of potential publications, preferably in relation to early modern prints in Western Europe.
– A good general knowledge of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century prints and the history of collecting such.
– An understanding of research methodologies in relation to historic arts collections.
– An awareness of issues surrounding the care, conservation, exhibition and security of graphic art collections.
– Excellent communication skills, with fluent spoken and written English.
– Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Office suite) and experience of Collections Management
– Database use. (Armagh Robinson Library currently uses MuseumPlus as its Collections Management System.)

See link below for further details.