Freelance opportunity: Heritage Interpreter

The Communities of Making network is looking for an experienced freelance Heritage Interpreter to help develop the narrative and content for a major touring exhibition launching in 2027.

Part of Art Fund’s Going Places programme, Communities of Making brings together High Life Highland Museums, CofGâr – Carmarthenshire Museums & Arts Service, and the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum.

Working collaboratively with museum teams and Young Curators groups across Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the appointed interpreter will help:

• connect collections, places and making traditions through a shared exhibition narrative
• develop accessible and engaging interpretive content
• place young people’s ideas and perspectives at the heart of the exhibition
• support object selection, exhibition design and creative commissions
• explore themes including textiles, basketry, metalwork and the sustainability of heritage craft practices

Freelance fee: £15,000, inclusive of travel and subsistence
Anticipated start: September 2026
Application deadline: Monday 6 August- midday.

Download the full bilingual brief attached to this post for details of the role, person specification and application process.

Download brief here>

Heritage Exhibition Interpretation and Content Brief_Briff Cynnwys a Dehongli Arddangosfa Dreftadaeth

Applications should be sent to emmarobinson@carmarthenshire.gov.uk.

Going Places is an Art Fund programme made possible with major support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Julia Rausing Trust. The Communities of Making network is also supported directly by the Swire Charitable Trust, the Radcliffe Trust and other generous supporters