Soleyma Theilmann Gohr

• Participated in meetings to discuss projects and next steps
• Assisted in translating documents, messages, and other communications from English to French
• Collaborated with other organisations for French language events.

• Assigns accession numbers, complies accession records, classifies, and physically numbers Gallery works of art and artefacts
• Performs data entry and filling of donor recognition letters, gift forms, donor cards, catalogue records, and other documentation
• Manages and assures accuracy, security, and intellectual integrity of collection records
• Conducts regular inventories of collections and performs reconciliation with the records
• Evaluate current practices, stay current with professional standards, and develop new practices in collections management and care
• Performs simple, appropriate cleaning of art and artefacts and seeks advice from a professional conservator for all other conservation needs
• Oversees development, maintenance, security, and upgrades of collections database
• Provide research on artefacts, along with their retrieval and preparation of art and artefact information
• Assisted in creating social media posts
• Assisted with education and gallery events.

• Provided research on juried exhibits, oral history projects, and artists for CCPERB applications and the curator’s projects
• Assisted with the organisation and leading of tours and summer camps
• Assisted with the creation of exhibitions, from plinths to label creations, and ensuring artists delivered their works to the Art Gallery for the Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour
• Helped with the promotion of July’s Family Sunday activity, and promoting the art gallery in Lakefield and Peterborough
• Assisted with preparations, set up, take down, and duration of public events and annual general meeting
• Updated list of artists in Peterborough and its area, where they were located, and if they had a writeup on the art gallery’s website
• Assisted with condition reporting of artworks and with certificates of authentication
• Assisted front desk with sign changes, adding price tags to new items, and preparing bios to give to visitors
• Typed out transcripts of interviews done by the curator with a local artist, and pulled quotes from a documentary for a future project.

• Helped to identify fossil bones, then provide their Latin names before creating their labels
• Uploaded and recorded artefacts from the museum’s natural and human history sections, and uploaded them onto MuseumSense (their database)
• Researched information to update the Palestine Room, specifically on Palestinian embroidery, Palestinian house keys, al-Nakba, and Palestinian oil lamps
• Helped the education department when two school groups came to visit the museum in the learning space
• Wrote for the museum newsletter about the programme
• Organised artefact photos so they could be uploaded onto MuseumSense by renaming the photos to the artefact number, and then uploading them
• Helped to do last-minute preparations for the Georgian exhibition, and then helped with the tour with the Georgian Prime Minister and his delegates
• Wrote a spark text for the museum on the Palestinian house keys
• Returned an artefact to the Syrian embassy and talked to the ambassador there
• Attended monthly meetings with the museum team, and took meeting notes for one of them.

· Assisted in the organization and leading of orientation events

· Facilitated team planning meetings on regular basis

· Set up and organised a guest lecture over Zoom, in coordination with the Programme Co-ordinator

· Assisted in providing information to students, whether it be through emails or the front desk

· Collaborated with co-workers, and different departments, to ensure that we all had the correct information

· Organised and created FAQ templates so that students could be given information that might not be easily found