Ava Salzer, Phd Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

I have delivered several lectures titled, ‘Documentation Reflections: The Reality of Documentation in Museums and Galleries,’ to the MA (Art Museum and Gallery Studies) course. These lectures engage students with the realities of cataloguing, address institutional processes, and explore the implications of documentation for information creation, preservation and loss. My sessions encourage critical thinking and equip students with the tools to be informed users and makers of documentation. Some topics covered within these lectures include: ethics, the evolution of documentation, institutional infrastructure, industry standards and guidance, and the object as documentation.

In this role I designed primary and other procedures in accordance with SPECTRUM 5.0 and 5.1, and managed volunteers to complete a full collections inventory. I created protocols for collections activities including identifying hazards, inventory, object handling, object movement, packing and storage. I also trained and managed volunteers to undertake these procedures. This project was motivated by the Palace’s move to a digital CMS (Modes), and as such I designed the inventory to be fully compatible with Modes in preparation for upload. Because of the institution’s upcoming reaccreditation, my involvement extended beyond inventory to other documentation planning. In this capacity I created or contributed to internal policy and guidance on digitisation, rights management, location ID and control, and emergency salvage

In this role I helped to enhance the cataloguing and care of the collection held at Fulham Palace. My work included: inventory and documentation tasks, preventive and remedial conservation (cleaning, condition and conservation tasks and reporting, environmental data downloads and analysis), object packing and handling and public engagement (writing blogs and assisting with lecture/demo events)

London, England

At Leighton House and 18 Stafford Terrace I completed extensive preventive collections care as well as the planning and execution of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) solutions. My work here included, object handling, cleaning, conservation (both preventive and some remedial care), collections packing and storage as well as documentation on an individual and policy level

London, England, United Kingdom

Transcribing and cataloguing for the Save Our Sounds heritage project

Washington, District Of Columbia

Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) collections research fellowship with NMNH.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Brooklyn, New York

Greenwich, Connecticut

Special events volunteer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Historical interpreter

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Historical interpreter

Notre-Dame-De-La-Merci, Quebec, Canada

Notre-Dame-De-La-Merci, Quebec, Canada

Phd, Museology/Museum Studies

Master Of Museum Studies, Museology/Museum Studies

Honours Bachelor Of Arts, History, Fine Art History

High School Diploma