JobHQ is the career centre of the American Alliance of Museums, the US sector's main professional body since 1906. It is where American museums post when they want the field to see a vacancy, and for US museum work it is the first place to look.
| AAM JobHQ | CuratorSearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Run by | American Alliance of Museums | A working curator |
| Coverage | United States | Europe, UK and North America — 180 live roles, 79 in North America |
| Access | Free to browse | Free to browse a sample; full board on a paid subscription |
| Pay in adverts | Salary required on every posting (AAM rule, since November 2022) | Whatever the institution stated — 22% of live roles do; every figure archived permanently |
| Where listings come from | Employers post to the board | Gathered daily from 400+ institutions’ own careers pages |
Facts about AAM JobHQ read from their own site on 6 September 2026. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and it will be corrected.
AAM made the salary field mandatory on JobHQ in November 2022. That is a stronger transparency guarantee than this site can offer, and it is worth saying plainly: on their board the figure is always there, because they can require it of the employers who post. We index what institutions publish on their own careers pages, and most of those still say nothing about pay.
A vacancy on JobHQ has been posted deliberately by a museum that wanted the American museum field to see it. That intent is a real signal, and it comes with AAM's membership, conferences and professional network around it.
JobHQ is a US board. If you are looking at institutions in Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Vienna or London, it will not show them to you. That gap is the reason this site exists.
Listings here come from institutions' own careers pages, checked daily. That catches roles nobody chose to syndicate anywhere — including ones only ever advertised on a museum's own site, in the local language, for a fortnight.
Every salary we see is archived permanently and published as a free dataset, including German public-sector grades decoded into euro ranges. That is a different thing from a posting rule: it measures how often the sector states pay at all, across institutions that never post to any board.
JobHQ is free and this board is not, beyond a handful of listings. And their salary rule genuinely beats our salary data on their own turf: if you only work in the US, JobHQ will show you a pay figure on every role, and we will not. AAM's site also declines automated requests, so their listings are not indexed here — that is their right, and it means the two boards do not overlap the way you might assume.
For US-only searching, JobHQ first. Add this for European institutions and for what the sector actually advertises as pay.
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