Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH About the role The Ashmolean Museum, part of the University of Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM), is seeking a Research Assistant for the Indian Collection within the Department of Eastern Art. The department houses internationally significant holdings of art from South and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and the Islamic world, encompassing over 46,000 objects and 150,000 items in the departmental archives, that together form one of Britain’s most important resources for the study of Asian art. Working under the supervision of the Keeper of Eastern Art – who also has curatorial responsibility for Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art – you will primarily be responsible for researching provenance, matching archival documents with objects in the collection, entering provenance information in the collections database, and writing labels and/or catalogue entries on works as required by the Keeper. You will improve the quality of available documentation and create digital records to meet Museum data standards for publication online. You will also be responsible for co-ordinating the digitisation of the archive on site with the assistance of student placements/volunteers. This is a fixed-term post for two years, working 18.75 hours per week on site.