Museum Technicians & Conservators
Also called:
Conservator, Objects Conservator, Paintings Conservator, Conservation Technician
What they do:
Restore, maintain, or prepare objects in museum collections for storage, research, or exhibit. May work with specimens such as fossils, skeletal parts, or botanicals; or artifacts, textiles, or art. May identify and record objects or install and arrange them in exhibits. Includes book or document conservators.
On the job, you would:
- Clean objects, such as paper, textiles, wood, metal, glass, rock, pottery, and furniture, using cleansers, solvents, soap solutions, and polishes.
- Determine whether objects need repair and choose the safest and most effective method of repair.
- Install, arrange, assemble, and prepare artifacts for exhibition, ensuring the artifacts' safety, reporting their status and condition, and identifying and correcting any problems with the set-up.
Arts and Humanities
- English language
- music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
Math and Science
Business
- management
- administrative services
Engineering and Technology
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- order or arrange things
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Hand and Finger Use
- keep your arm or hand steady
- put together small parts with your fingers
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People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Independence
- Initiative
- Analytical Thinking
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You might use software like this on the job:
Data base user interface and query software
- Gallery Systems EmbARK
- Questor Systems ARGUS
Spreadsheet software
Electronic mail software
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master's degree or
some college
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
$38,220
per year, on average
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