Cape Ann Museum

The Mission of the Cape Ann Museum is to foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on Cape Ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of Cape Ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to encourage community involvement with its programs and holdings. In all its activities, the Museum emphasizes the highest standards of quality and seeks to engage the broadest possible audience.

The Cape Ann Museum seeks a Head of Education & Community Engagement who is eager to devise and execute an educational and interpretative strategy that illuminates and celebrates the art and culture of Cape Ann as a singularly unique place.

About the Cape Ann Museum

The Cape Ann Museum (CAM), a leading regional museum and treasure on Cape Ann, is situated at the epicenter of artistic and marine history in the Northeast. For a museum of its size, CAM has achieved a high and rare degree of national stature. Its nationally significant collections include fine and decorative arts and artifacts relating to Cape Ann’s earliest days as a major fishing and shipping port, its mid-19th century role in the granite industry, as well as the concurrent vibrant artistic community that has been attracted to its singular charms of light and sea continuing to the present. Such well known painters and sculptors as Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Cecilia Beaux, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Walker Hancock, Virginia Lee Burton, and Mark Rothko, as well as many others whose names are still to be discovered, all nurtured their artistic vision on Cape Ann.

In March 2025 the Museum completed its CAM 150 capital campaign successfully raising more than $23 million, well above its $20 million goal. These efforts were focused on developing its 4-acre Cape Ann Museum Green campus (CAM Green), growing the Museum’s endowment and facilitating the redesign and expansion of the Museum’s Downtown campus galleries located near the historic waterfront.

With the Downtown campus reopening in spring 2026 after 16 months of closure, these comprehensive renovations include substantially enhancing displays of the fisheries, archival and 20th and 21st century art collections and installing upgraded climate control, lighting, and security systems to ensure an exceptional visitor experience. As the Museum enters its next chapter, coinciding with the celebration of its 150th anniversary and the opening of the landmark exhibition Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea on June 30, 2026, it is an exciting and pivotal time to join the leadership of the Museum’s professional team.

Cape Ann Museum’s DEIA Commitment

As a steward of the art, history, and culture of Cape Ann, located an hour north of Boston and embracing the towns of Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the Sea, and Essex, the Cape Ann Museum is committed to representing the lived experiences of those who have been part of the region’s history and are part of its story today. Through ongoing scholarship and community engagement, the Museum has developed an understanding and appreciation of Cape Ann’s unfolding narrative, both past and present. The Museum is committed to representing these narratives in its permanent collections, archives, exhibitions, and program offerings.

Since 2021 the Museum has made significant progress towards establishing and expanding a signature calendar of community events that intentionally reach out to broad cross sections of the Cape Ann community --young and old-- and are developed in partnership with community stakeholders and with the robust tourist population that visits annually. Examples include the Gloucester Juneteenth Celebration, the Gloucester's So Salty ice sculpture festival, the Brazilian Independence Day Celebration, Indigenous Heritage Day, First Fridays: Art After Hours, and the Courtyard Concert Series. Through these events and other initiatives such as the Museum’s K-12 program which revolves around both in-school and museum visits conducted by CAM Educators, the Museum is aiming to become an inclusive organization where visitors of all backgrounds feel welcomed and can enjoy and engage with the art, culture and history of Cape Ann.