Career Opportunities in Museology

• Curators
• Museum Educationists
• Exhibition Coordinators
• Consultants

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• Managing the activities happening in museums on daily basis.
• Planning, Organizing, and Executing important events and exhibitions in the museums.
• Deciding which artifact to display, arranging them, labeling them, writing the relevant information about it.
• Organizing film trips and publications, guided tours, school visits, traveling exhibitions, etc.
• Making decisions about the purchases of rare and new collections for museum enrichment, deciding which art objects have to be identified, examined, cleaned, preserved, displayed, or stored, and maintaining the record of each item (origin, age, and conservation details).

Career Pros Details

• You can participate in new exhibits, programs, special events frequently happening in the museums.
• If you love the academic environment, museums would be a great place to work as it involves educating large masses.
• If you love to travel, you can be a part of various travel exhibitions, tours, school visits, etc.

Career Cons Details

• There is a lot of competition involved and requires huge time investment to become a curator.
• It is not easy to make a lot of money in this area

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to organise, present and communicate messages effectively through design
• Excellent project management and organisational skills
• Knowledge of fundraising for cultural projects
• Knowledge of working with museum databases and IT issues
• Good teamwork skills
• Excellent research and IT skills.