Description: Olivia Elliott Smith is an academic and museum professional currently based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has a Masters of Museum Studies and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Mediaeval and Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto. She is currently a graduate student in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies at the University of Iceland. She is interested in combining the worlds of academia and museum work in her professional practice.
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Academic and Museum Professional
Olivia Elliott Smith is a Canadian academic and museum professional currently based in Oslo, Norway and Toronto, Canada. She has a Masters of Museum Studies and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Mediaeval and Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto. She is currently completing a joint Master of Arts from the University of Iceland and the University of Oslo in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies.
Olivia has worked in research, collections management, interpretation, and education at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Museum of Inuit Art, and the Canadian Language Museum. She has experience in collections management, preventative conservation, public programs and education, and curatorial research, with specializations in Medieval art and archaeology and rare book and manuscript illustration. She has also worked as a consultant for museum education initiatives, and supervised a