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Duties & Responsibilities:

The Harvard Art Museum seeks a dynamic, accomplished, and experienced senior curator to lead the Busch-Reisinger Museum, the only museum in North America dedicated to promoting exploration and critical understanding of the visual arts and culture of the German-speaking countries of Central and Northern Europe from the early Middle Ages to the present.

We seek an intellectual authority who will assume the full range of curatorial responsibility for the Busch-Reisinger Museum's extensive collections. The curator will conceive, implement, and oversee an intellectually rigorous and ambitious exhibition and publication program for the Busch-Reisinger Museum in a manner that is commensurate with, and contributes to current original scholarship in the field while aligning with our larger institutional goals.

Foregrounding the museum's teaching and research mission, the curator will foster a significant and sustained curricular role for the Busch-Reisinger collection, projects and programs, especially within the undergraduate curriculum. The curator is expected to teach and mentor students, interns, fellows, and junior curatorial staff in the museum and in the classroom. In addition, the curator will promote dialogue, engagement, and collaboration with other curatorial departments that have overlapping collection holdings and expertise, and will ensure that the Busch-Reisinger's collection and its documentation are fully accessible to faculty, students and the public.

The curator will participate fully in institutional development activities including the cultivation and on-going development of relationships with patrons of the museum, professional colleagues, partner organizations and the community. The curator will actively solicit funds for museum purposes, including, but not limited to, acquisitions, exhibitions, publications, and programs from individuals, foundations, corporations, and federal agencies. A critical aspect of these activities will be to establish an effective working relationship, as well as assume a leadership role, with the German-based Verein der Freunde des Busch-Reisinger Museums e.V. an der Harvard Universität (Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum) support group, a key component of Busch-Reisinger activities and programs.

Basic Qualifications:

Ph.D. in art history; minimum six years progressively responsible curatorial experience; demonstrated record of original scholarship and achievement in the field German art through publications, exhibitions, and other field-specific professional activities; commitment to fostering appreciation and understanding of the Busch-Reisinger collections through teaching, lecturing, and organizing exhibits and educational programs; demonstrated written and oral communication skills; fluency in English and German.

Additional Information:

The Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum is the only museum in North America dedicated to promoting exploration and critical understanding of the visual arts and culture of the German-speaking countries of Central and Northern Europe from the early Middle Ages to the present. Founded in 1903 as the Germanic Museum through the efforts of Kuno Francke, a professor of German literature at Harvard, the museum originally contained only reproductions, notably plaster casts of major Germanic sculptural and architectural monuments that still constitute a valuable teaching resource. Renamed the Busch-Reisinger Museum in 1950 in honor of the St. Louis families who had contributed decisively to its support, the museum now holds nearly 40,000 original works of art that range in date from the 7th century to the present. See http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/collection/busch-reisinger/ for more information.

Please apply directly through this link:

http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=41679