Director of Collections

The Museum of the City of New York seeks an experienced and visionary leader to strategize and implement long-term goals and manage daily operations of the Museum’s Collections Department. The Director of Collections will have the responsibility for overseeing a diverse collection with respect to accessibility, stewardship, and strategic planning, and for shaping a department to implement those goals. This person will lead by example on issues of diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion and will align the Department’s strategy with the Museum’s commitment to fostering understanding of the manifold diversity of New York City.

The Director of Collections has primary oversight of areas of museum registration, object installation, contracts, exhibition coordination and implementation, and collections care and digitization. The Director will oversee collection management of all works in the MCNY collection, and on loan, including safe handling, care, conservation, accurate record keeping, accessioning, cataloging, insurance, storage, providing access, deaccessions, and coordinating loans to other institutions. The Director will also oversee exhibition installation coordination, including the safe packing and shipping of art works, installations practices, negotiating contracts, customs, and the management of traveling exhibitions.

Reporting to the Chief Curator, the Director of Collections will be a member of the MCNY senior leadership team, planning our strategic priorities and implementing programs in the context of overall institutional objectives. As a Department Head, the Director will have responsibility for the management, direction, long-range planning, projects, operations, and budget of a department including cons¬ervators, registrars, art handlers, and administrative professionals—together they have strengths in collections stewardship, description and access, collections digitization, exhibitions installation, rights and reproductions, incoming and outgoing object loans, management of satellite collections facility, oversight of institutional archives and records retention, and marketing and securing traveling exhibition venues both nationally and internationally.