Museum Technicians & Conservators

Also called: Conservator, Objects Conservator, Paintings Conservator

Career Cluster: Education & Training
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:
  • 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.
  • Repair, restore, and reassemble artifacts, designing and fabricating missing or broken parts, to restore them to their original appearance and prevent deterioration.
  • Clean objects, such as paper, textiles, wood, metal, glass, rock, pottery, and furniture, using cleansers, solvents, soap solutions, and polishes.
KNOWLEDGE

Safety and Government
  • public safety and security
Math and Science
  • chemistry
Arts and Humanities
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
  • English language
Business
  • management
SKILLS

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
ABILITIES

Hand and Finger Use
  • keep your arm or hand steady
  • put together small parts with your fingers
Ideas and Logic
  • order or arrange things
  • create new and original ideas
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
PERSONALITY

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
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Integrity
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Initiative
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Data base user interface and query software
  • Gallery Systems EmbARK
  • Questor Systems QScan32
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
EDUCATION


master's degree or bachelor's degree
usually needed
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JOB OUTLOOK


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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.


Salary:
High: $82,790.00
Median: $47,460.00
Low: $30,720.00
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