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.
• Regularly reviewed and updated the museum’s policy documents - including for Museum Accreditation - obtaining sign-off from the governing body.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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