Tim Hamilton
Collections Assistant @Black Country Living Museum
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WORK HISTORY
Collections Assistant @Black Country Living Museum
Support the care, documentation, and strategic management of a large and diverse social history collection within a complex open-air museum environment. • Contribute to the migration from legacy systems to Axiell Collections, supporting data cleaning, record reconciliation, and staff adaptation to new collections management workflows. • Undertake object handling, packing, movement, and storage across museum stores and historic buildings, applying preventative conservation principles and safe manual handling practices. • Support collections disposals in line with professional standards, contributing to research, documentation, and decision-making processes. • Assist in the recruitment, coordination, and support of collections volunteers, providing guidance, task planning, and supervision to ensure safe, productive, and mutually beneficial working. • Maintain ongoing professional development focused on collections care, risk management, and sector leadership, with consistent implementation across day-to-day museum practice, including IPM, emergency planning, and salvage preparedness. • Contribute to the Forging Ahead project, supporting collections research, documentation, and preparation in alignment with project aims and public outcomes. • Support exhibition changeovers and object installations, working collaboratively with curatorial, conservation, and technical teams in a live heritage environment. • Create and contribute to digital engagement content, including TikTok videos, supporting public-facing interpretation and widening access to collections and museum work. • Work within health and safety and risk assessment frameworks, recognising the additional operational complexities of an open-air museum site.
EDUCATION
The Open University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History
Brasshouse Languages
Japanese Language
University of Oxford
Local History, Research
City St George’s, University of London
Short Course, Curating and Exhibition Management
ABOUT TIM HAMILTON
Collection Care Assistant at Black Country Living Museum | Senior Museum Enabler at Birmingham Museum Trust’s Aston Hall | Writer for West Midlands Magazine | Trustee of British Association for Local History
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