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Museum Curator
Alternative Titles:
Exhibitions Officer
Museum curators look after, manage, organise and develop
museum collections, and conduct related research.
A museum curator may perform the following tasks:
- acquire items for the collections in their care
- examine items to determine condition and authenticity
- identify and classify specimens, and arrange
conservation and restoration work
- keep and maintain records about all items in the
collection
- organise and participate in display teams which may
include travelling or arranging for loan exhibitions
- initiate and maintain research and publication programs,
and establish networks and assist other professionals on
request
- lecture and write about the collections, and answer
public enquiries
- supervise support staff and organise administrative
duties associated with the use and care of the collection.
Museum curators usually specialise in a broad discipline,
e.g. anthropology, art, decorative arts, natural history,
social history, science or technology and within that
discipline they are generally recognised as authorities of one
or more specific subject areas.
Museum curators work mainly indoors, but they may be
required to travel extensively on field study. In small
museums, one curator may be responsible for the entire
management of the institution and its collections.
Museum curators may also specialise as an
Education Officer who initiates, develops and
administers special programs to inform and educate visiting
school classes and other sections of the public about the
collections and exhibitions. Education officers may also
organise and travel with mobile exhibitions to suburban or
country areas.
Required Skills - Museum Curator
- appreciation of the history of science, the environment
or the arts
- patience
- able to pay attention to detail
- an objective, methodical approach to work
- good communication skills, both written and oral
- a good imagination
- demonstrated ability for scholarly work
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