City of Mississauga

Museum Collections Assistant

📍 Location

Mississauga, Ontario

⏰ Job Type

Temporary

📅 Posted

March 23, 2026

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Job Description

Job Summary
The main objective of the Summer Collections Assistant position is to assist with conducting an artifact inventory of the Benares Outbuildings and storage areas. This requires physically checking each artifact, creating new barcode labels, taking photographs as needed, and updating our PastPerfect database. As well, 75-100 condition reports on random artifacts from the collection will be created and entered into our database. The final objective would be to research appraisal values and conservation treatments for selected artifacts.
Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction of the Collections Coordinator, the Summer Collections Assistant will:
Work as part of a team to complete an artifact inventory of the storage at Benares Historic House as well as create 75 condition reports.

Using PastPerfect database, tasks will also include data entry, historical research, scanning and/or taking dig...
    

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