Our April 2024 newsletter is live! Follow the link to read about our Celebration of National Textiles Day, updates about the Preservation Trades Workshop, and a preview of 2024 events. The post April 2024 Newsletter: Opening Weekend Textiles Exhibit & More appeared first on Victoria Mansion ..read more

Victoria Mansion sends out a monthly newsletter to our members and subscribers, with updates on conservation and restoration projects, educational programs, research initiatives, upcoming events, and more. Read on at the links below to catch up on the past year of newsletters, and subscribe any time to stay up to date on Mansion projects! Starting in April 2024, newsletters will be cross-posted to our VictoriaMansion.org news feed within a few days. March 2024: Featuring Historic Preservation Updates and a 2024 Events Preview February 2024: Featuring Paint Conservation News January 2024: Feat ..read more

Museum Site Manager General Purpose Victoria Mansion seeks to hire a weekend Site Manager. This is a part-time position of 24 hours per week (generally three eight-hour days), comprising the periods May 1-October 31 and during the Mansion’s holiday season (the day after Thanksgiving through the first week in January). The Site Manager is responsible for opening and closing the Mansion, greeting visitors, overseeing daily museum shop operations, and providing customer service. There will be occasions when the Site Manger may be asked to work evenings to help cover an event. The option for ..read more

Part-time Museum Guide   General Purpose This is a flexible 3-24 hours per-week position for 33 weeks per year, comprising Victoria Mansion’s regular season (usually May 1- October 31) and Christmas season (the day after Thanksgiving through the first full week of January). The Part-time Guide is primarily responsible for giving both 45-minute guided tours as well as room monitoring/guiding for self-guided tours of the Mansion and for specialized tours, including possibly off-season (January-April) school group tours. Additional tasks include greeting visitors/customers in the museum and ..read more

Part-time Museum Guide – Summer  Are you a current or recently graduated student with an interest in working in museums? Victoria Mansion has summer opportunities for part-time museum guides for students ages 16 and up!   General Purpose This is a flexible 3-24 hours per week seasonal position (summer months with possibility for weekends in the fall and winter). The Part-time Guide is primarily responsible for giving both 45-minute guided tours as well as room monitoring/guiding for self-guided tours of Victoria Mansion, an historic house museum near the arts district in Portland. Ad ..read more

Museum Site Manager   General Purpose   This is a part-time position of 24 to 32 hours per week (generally three eight-hour days based on scheduling and needs), comprising the periods 1 May through 31 October and during the Mansion’s Christmas season (the day after Thanksgiving through the first week in January.) The Site Manager is responsible for opening and closing the Mansion on days they are on duty, greeting visitors, overseeing daily museum shop operations, providing customer service and, when needed, filling in as a tour guide in the Mansion at times of high visitation. The M ..read more

We’re Hiring Victoria Mansion Director of Development   General Purpose Victoria Mansion seeks a full-time Director of Development to help build and sustain relationships with our members, donors, and institutional partners.  The Director of Development works with the Executive Director to cultivate ties with the larger community, manage and grow the museum’s membership program, and implement annual giving campaigns. The Director of Development also manages fundraising events and works with senior staff to write grants and facilitate capital gifts.   About Victoria Mansion Const ..read more

Victoria Mansion, a National Historic Landmark, has named Timothy Brosnihan as its new Executive Director. After a six-month search in the US and Canada, the Search Committee announced that the position would go to Brosnihan, former Assistant Director of the museum. Board member Sue Sturtevant chaired the Search Committee, which included other board members Cynthia MacDonald, Sue Nutty, Drew Oestreicher and Kathie Propp, along with community members Randal Rucker and Mike Stone. They worked with Gail Nessell Colglazier, Principal, Executive Searches for Museums, and Hilary Robbins, Founder and ..read more

The very first delivery of cargo by air to Portland, Maine in July of 1926 included some unexpected freight: a shipment of high-end dresses from New York City for the J.R. Libby Department Store. Though the store’s founder and namesake– and second owner of the Mansion– J.R. Libby had passed away in 1917, his son Ralph and the principals of the store certainly celebrated in his stead.  Most likely taken by a newspaper photographer, the image below shows a group of 15 men standing in front of the fabled biplane and two young men perched inside of it, a few figures and cars visible ..read more

Now in its eighth month, the conservation project to clean and stabilize the walls and ceiling of the Parlor is still in progress, and with the completion of our successful Christmas season the room is once again a hive of activity as conservators complete a second pass cleaning the original 1860 decoration of the room by Italian artist Giuseppe Guidicini.   The size of the room, (the Mansion’s largest), along with the required methods of cleaning, make for an extremely detailed project that will still take several more months to complete. As Guidicini used an water soluble egg-based ..read more