Collection Care Assistant

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Fashion Museum Bath holds one of the world’s leading collections of fashion, spanning 400 years of human creativity, from 1600 to the present day. It is an exciting time for the Fashion Museum as we undertake a major capital project to open a new Fashion Museum (relocated from the old site). Opening in 2030 the new Museum will transform access to the Collection, with dynamic exhibitions, displays and programming.

We are seeking to appoint a Collection Care Assistant to join the Fashion Museum team at a key moment in the Museum’s transformation. The postholder will play a vital role in supporting the Museum’s redevelopment, with a focus on collections access, care and documentation. Based primarily at the Collection Store in Warminster, the postholder will help deliver core collection activities including location auditing, object cataloguing on CMS, IPM, specialist rehousing and collections rationalisation, preparing the Collection to support the programme for the new Museum.

The role also directly contributes to the Museum’s pre‑opening programme by delivering supporting collection tours, co‑working sessions and off‑site engagement activities, helping to expand and deepen public engagement with the Collection.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and organised colleague, who is interested in improving collection documentation and care and sharing the collection with others through collections access.

You will have:

• Demonstrable knowledge/research/professional practice related to fashion or fashion history
• Some demonstrable experience of working with museum objects in a museum store.
• Some demonstrable experience of working and engaging with members of the public
• (Desirable) Sewing skills

Your work will be mainly based in the Collections Store in Warminster, but will also include working on average 1 day per week in Bath, with some opportunity for home‑working.

For more information, please refer to Role Specific Criteria document.

The Role Profile - also included - is standardised across the sites in Heritage Services (Fashion Museum Bath, the Roman Baths & Pump Room, Victoria Art Gallery, and Bath Record Office) and so includes some information not applicable to this role. Specific information for this post is provided in the Role Specific Criteria document.

If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Elly Summers, Collections Manager,  or by telephone on .

Please note that this advert may close earlier than the stated closing date due to high demand. We advise all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

Interview Date (in Bath or online): 02/04/2026

• Please note, BANES Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register (redeployee). This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role they will be considered ahead of external applicants.

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