Emma Smith Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Managing all registrarial work principally relating to the planning and delivery of temporary exhibitions at Wellcome Collection, providing specialist support to the Curator and Exhibition Project Manager as necessary. Acting as primary liaison with lenders, negotiating loan agreements and liaising with lenders about conservation, display, transport, insurance, condition reporting and courier requirements. Organising the two-way transport of all loans to the exhibitions. Scheduling, supervising and managing the installation of objects to ensure the safety and security of exhibits and ensure work is completed in the scheduled period. Ensuring all licences are in place and all records and necessary conditions are up-to-date in relation to the import and export of exhibits and where applicable to other regulations such as the Human Tissue Act. Working with the Wellcome Trust’s insurance provider and the Trust’s Enterprise Risk Manager to ensure all exhibits are correctly insured and the conditions of insurance fulfilled. Establishing and implementing the new collections management database system Mimsy XG.

As Exhibitions Registrar - Coordinating and delivering international loans from Russia for the temporary exhibition, ‘Cosmonauts’. Delivering collections registration and collections documentation work for the exhibition. Implementing Immunity from Seizure and Government Indemnity for the loan objects, negotiating contracts and loan agreements, creating records on MIMSY XG collections database, organising shipment and installation/deinstallation of objects, and managing my departmental budget and risk register for the project. Acting as a courier in transit from Moscow to London. As Project Coordinator - primary liaison with lenders and wider stakeholder management. Key contact for the project and overseeing the work packages of other departments within the museum. Actively seeking opportunities to raise the profile of the exhibition, including being a spokesperson for the media and coordinating an associated public events programme. Line managing the Collections Registration Coordinator on temporary exhibition projects.

I facilitate loans in and out of the Museum, both national and international, and administer new acquisitions. I organise insurance and indemnity for loans, implement immunity from seizure and ensure due diligence checks are completed. I deliver collections care and management through object handling, audits, cataloguing, hazard checking and movement control. I constantly liaise between curators, exhibition teams, contractors and external stakeholders.

London, United Kingdom

I was a intern in the curatorial department as a work experience placement during my Museum Studies Masters degree. I conducted an audit of the London transport poster collection.

I catalogued Soane's architectural drawings of Dulwich Picture Gallery on the museum’s collections database for publication online. I applied data standards, researched the historic context of the drawings and uploaded digital images to enhance the records. This was part of a MLA Designation Development Fund project, ‘Building Sites’.

Museum Studies

History