Galleries, Libraries, Museums & Archives Recruitment

Galleries, libraries, museums and archives care for collections that connect people with art, culture, history, knowledge and place. Alongside preservation and research, they create opportunities for learning, public engagement and wider access, with leaders responsible for ensuring collections remain relevant and accessible to the communities they serve.

Financial pressures, changing audience and user expectations, digital access and environmental responsibility are influencing how GLAM organisations operate. Financial resilience needs to sit alongside responsible stewardship, while leaders consider how collections are interpreted and shared, develop commercial and fundraising income, broaden participation and manage investment in people, estates and technology.

These responsibilities often sit across leadership teams that bring together collections and curatorial expertise, learning and research, visitor and user experience, commercial activity, fundraising and corporate services. Our briefing conversations explore how these areas come together within your organisation, the leadership priorities ahead and where specialist GLAM or collections experience will matter.

Long-standing relationships across arts, heritage and culture sit alongside targeted research in every search, giving us access to leaders within galleries, libraries, museums and archives as well as people whose experience could transfer from related settings. We consider the scale and context of what candidates have led, how they have worked with collections, audiences and stakeholders, and how that experience relates to the leadership challenges ahead.