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Museology involves managing and administrating museums. Museology includes aspects of archeology, history, research and archiving. As a Museologist, you can work in museums, the work profile includes the combination of research, administration, and public relations. You can work both in the private/government sectors, museums, and galleries. Museology can be interesting to those students who are interested in fields like history, science of preserving and conserving museum collections.
Curators organise the display of artifacts in museums
• Organise exhibitions by choosing the display items, labelling them and arranging them.
• Make purchases of rare and new collections for museum enrichment
• Art objects have to be identified examined, cleaned, preserved, displayed or stored.
• Maintain the record of each item - the origin, age and conservation details.
• Curators may specialise in natural history, textiles, paintings, terracotta, metals, etc.
• Curators are involved in training programmes and courses.
| Stream | Graduation | After Graduation | After Post Graduation | |
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Path 1 |
Class XII with any stream | Pursue Graduation in any Discipline for 3 years | Pursue M.A./M.Sc. in Museology for 2 years | Pursue Ph.D. in Museology |
As a Curator, you can procure artifacts, create exhibitions and maintain exhibits. They organize the display of artifacts in museums, organize exhibitions by choosing the display items, labelling them, arranging them, making 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).
Museums provide a learning situation in which the visitors experience learning. Museum Educationists educate people and students visiting to Museums. They decorate exhibition halls, properly arranged secondary collections, label them, arrange guided tours, organize traveling exhibitions, organize school class visits, training courses to the teachers, illustrate lectures, motion pictures, film trips and publications, etc.
The exhibition is the only language through which a museum can communicate with large masses so as to create a direct impact on them. Exhibition Coordinators co-ordinate with their team for organizing the exhibition. They have to select the topic of the Exhibition like irrigation, soil conservation, farm management, industry, social welfare, etc. They can use various mediums to aware visitors such as pictures, photographs, drawings, charts, models and other subsidiary materials.
The job role of a consultant is to plan and design management strategies, create content, promote exhibitions and other cultural facilities.
The starting salary for a curator/museologist is around Rs 25,000 to 35,000 per month. Whereas senior curators are offered 65,000 to 75,000 rupees a month. According to the experience and the post, the salary can increase to lakhs. Apart from salary, other facilities are also available in government jobs. However, the salary package is much better in the private sector. If a person wants to earn more, then he can try to get a job outside India. After the course, job opportunities are also available in foreign countries.
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