Collections Care Technician

Collections Care Technician | Full time | 35 hours | 10 Months Fixed Term to 31st May 2027

Full Time Salary: £30,496 – £32,743

Hours: 35 hours per week | Monday – Friday | Hybrid

Location: National Museums Collection Centre

National Museums Scotland is one of the leading museum groups in Europe with one of the largest and most diverse collections in the world.

As an organisation our values are Creative, Inclusive, Collaborative and Forward-thinking.

We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate, service-driven individuals to join our Collections Care team.

Benefits of joining us as our Collections Care Technician include:

• Annually alongside your salary, National Museums Scotland contributes 28.97% of this towards you being a member of the Civil Service Pension Scheme
• A generous annual leave of 28.5 days – rising to 33.5 after 5 years, plus an additional 8 paid days public holidays.
• Free access to national (and international) museums and exhibitions
• A range of wellbeing benefits including Employee Assistance Programme 24/7
• Access to all the above and more from day one of employment.

About the Collections Care Technician role

Located in the Museum’s Collections Care team, this post is to provide backfill for project working and plays a central role in the delivery of a comprehensive and integrated programme of collections care across all five National Museums Scotland sites. Collections Care Technicians deliver efficient handling, movement and packing of collections in support of the Museum’s programme of displays, exhibitions, loans and effective collection storage as well as object cleaning for collections on display and in store.

As a Collections Care Technician at National Museums Scotland you will:

• Be involved in the Museum’s object movement programme to achieve exhibitions, loans, displays, tours, digitisation, and capital projects, ensuring the planned, timely, safe, and efficient movement of collections in liaison with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Undertake specialist technical collection packing for exhibition, loan and tour identifying innovative solutions across a large and diverse collection to agreed Museum standards and health and safety requirements.
• Support the delivery of object deep cleaning with specialist training to safely access collections at height across all Museum sites.
• Support the Preventive Conservation and Conservation programmes as appropriate with the application of specialist technical knowledge.

Skills and experience we’re looking for in our Collections Care Technician:

• A first degree in a relevant subject, or equivalent experience
• Technical knowledge relevant to the management of diverse collection types
• Proven relevant experience in a similar Collections Care role in museums/heritage
• Experience with data entry and data checking in a museum/archive collection database

Please be sure to view relevant attachments for this role (available on our Careers Portal : careers.nms.ac.uk) for full details of the position.

The closing date for this role is 09/09/2026 (9 September 2026). The Selection Event is likely to take place 22/09/2026 (22 September 2026).