John Betts Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Senior museum professional responsible for:• Curating, managing, caring for and facilitating access to the museum, archive and early printed book collections.• Maintaining the collections as an educational and research resource for the history of British pharmacy, including the provision of an information and enquiry service.• Managing the Museum Documentation Assistant, and training and supervising volunteers and placement students.Achievements:• Effectively managed the museum's resources (including financial management and planning) and the standards of collection care, documentation and access; ensuring the Museum retained Accredited Museum status in both our 2013 and 2018 applications.• Regularly reviewed and updated the museum’s policy documents - including for Museum Accreditation - obtaining sign-off from the governing body.• Planned and oversaw arrangements for the museum’s premises move in 2015; including the preparation and documentation of the collection, and requirements for the new storage and display areas.• Successfully led the curation and installation of the museum’s new permanent displays in the new museum; showcasing over 500 years of British pharmacy history.• Increased audience engagement with the collections through onsite exhibitions, guided tours, the object loans out program, web-based information resources, and at outreach events. • Developed the structure and content of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum app; increasing digital access to the collections.

• Responsible for the collection’s management of all museum, archive and early printed book collections.- Current accessioning and loans documentation. - Object cataloguing, including digital photography of objects; inputting data into the collection management system (MODES). - Maintenance and development of collection databases and the Documentation Procedural Manual.- Organised the museum's storage areas and re-packed collections as required.- Monitoring the environmental conditions of the stored and displayed collections, writing quarterly reports.• Ensured standards of collection care, documentation and access met Museum Accreditation Scheme standards, and all relevant legal and health and safety requirements. • Managed the museum enquiry service; ensured all completed and entered on the Customer Relationship Management system.• Curated engaging exhibitions for the Museum's exhibition program.• Trained and supervised volunteers and student placements.

• Completed all museum documentation to Spectrum standards. • Successfully worked towards eliminating the backlog of accessioning.• Created accurate and complete object records - by inputting new research and existing data from hard copy sources into the collections management system MODES for Windows. • Improved digital access, through digital photography of objects and scanning existing images.• Maintained and developed the Documentation Procedural Manual, for the museum's successful 2009 Accreditation application. • Improved object storage by repacking specialist collections as required, ensuring compliance with legal, and health and safety requirements.• Monitored the environmental conditions of stored and displayed collections, writing environmental reports to enable effective care of the collections.• Curated engaging exhibitions for the museum's exhibition program.

• Catalogued the museum's collection on the collection management system MODES for Windows.• Increased public access to the collections via the digitisation of museum images for web pages.• Assisted with the care of the collection, monitoring storage and conservation requirements.• Assisted with the acquisition of objects and liaison with donors.• Responsible for arranging loans in and out and maintaining accessioning and loans documentation.• Curated social history exhibitions for the museum's temporary exhibition program.

• Packed and removed into storage all the objects and works of art in the house's collection.• Re-instated the collection in the house.• Trained by the curator and conservation experts in the appropriate object handling and packing techniques and how to condition check objects.• Trained in storage area control & conservation requirements.

Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex

• Assisted with the educational department's Image & Identity project, coordinated by the V&A.• Project encouraged pupils from local secondary schools to explore and express their personal image and identity inspired by the Museum's collections.• Supported pupil’s engagement with the Museum’s collections and the department's learning objectives during the project. • Assisted with the preparation for, curation, and installation of the pupils work for the Museum’s Image & Identity exhibition.• Internship provided me with invaluable knowledge of the management of art education projects.

Master Of Arts - Ma, History Of Art, Pass

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History Of Art, 2:1