Overview As Exhibitions Project Manager at Wellcome Collection, you lead the delivery of complex and experimental exhibitions, artworks, and installations from concept to completion. You ensure high standards in design, production, installation, accessibility, and sustainability, while collaborating with curators, artists, designers, and colleagues across the museum. You assess project needs, allocate resources, and identify expertise to achieve objectives. This role offers the chance to shape engaging exhibition experiences within a renowned health-focused cultural institution.
Responsibilities - Manage delivery of complex exhibitions, projects, and commissioned artworks from concept through to delivery
- Ensure design, production, installation, and interpretation are high quality, accessible, and environmentally sustainable
- Collaborate with curators, registrars, artists, designers, and colleagues to develop engaging exhibition experiences
- Evaluate project needs, manage resources, and identify required expertise to achieve objectives
- Build strong relationships with project consultants, contractors, and stakeholders
- Work with artists and curators to develop new commissions
- Commission exhibition design and fabrication with a focus on accessibility and environmental responsibility
- Promote a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation by collaborating across departments
Key requirements - Significant experience managing planning, production, and installation of large-scale temporary exhibitions in a museum, gallery, or similar cultural setting
- Proven ability to manage complex projects including budgets, schedules, resources, risks, and competing priorities
- Experience working with artists to realise commissioned artworks
- Experience of design commissioning; managing exhibition designers, contractors, fabricators, and technical suppliers
- Understanding of conservation and care requirements of museum objects and artworks
- Collaborative mindset
- Relationship-building and stakeholder management
- Cross-departmental collaboration
- Project management
- Budget and resource management
- Risk management
