Volume, alerts and the network
More listings, better notification tooling, and the thing no job board can offer: the people. A referral from someone you know moves an application further than any board does, and that is LinkedIn's real product.
CuratorSearch vs LinkedIn
LinkedIn is where most people start, and for good reason: it is free, enormous, and the alerts work. This is not a comparison of size — LinkedIn has more museum listings than this board ever will. It is a comparison of which museum roles reach it in the first place.
| CuratorSearch | ||
|---|---|---|
| Run by | LinkedIn / Microsoft | A working curator |
| Coverage | Everywhere, every sector | Europe, UK and North America — 180 live roles |
| Access | Free to browse with an account | Free to browse a sample; full board on a paid subscription |
| Pay in adverts | No sector rule; pay shown only where the employer chose to | 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 LinkedIn 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 If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and it will be corrected.
What LinkedIn does better
The commercial and adjacent roles
Galleries, auction houses, art fairs, agencies, tech and consultancies hiring for cultural work post there and often nowhere else. Those roles are largely outside what this board indexes.
Where this board is different
The roles that never reach LinkedIn
A large share of museum vacancies — public-sector posts, university museums, continental institutions, small foundations — are published on the institution's own careers page and nowhere else, often briefly and often in the local language. Posting to LinkedIn costs money and effort a public museum frequently does not spend. Those roles are exactly what this site reads for.
One sector, sorted the way the sector works
Curatorial, collections, conservation, archives, education, production, leadership. No filtering "curator" out of retail and content-marketing results.
Verified and permanent
Every listing shows the date it was last confirmed open, and closed roles keep their page rather than vanishing. Advertised pay is archived permanently and published as a free dataset.
Being straight about it
LinkedIn is free and this board is not, past a handful of listings. If you are searching in a large US or UK city, LinkedIn plus the sector boards may be all you need. The argument for this site is coverage of institutions that never post to a general board — and it is a real argument, not a claim to be bigger.
Keep LinkedIn for the network and the commercial roles. Use this for institutional vacancies that stay on the institution's own site.
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