Museum Technicians & Conservators
Museum Technicians & Conservators
Bright Outlook
Career outlook for
Museum Technicians & Conservators
What's it like?
Restore, maintain, or prepare objects in museum collections for storage, research, or exhibit. May work with specimens such as fossils, skeletal parts; or artifacts, textiles, or art. May identify and record objects or install and arrange them in exhibits. Includes book or document conservators.
Working conditions
Tasks
- 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.
- Classify and assign registration numbers to artifacts and supervise inventory control.
Top Skills
- Active Listening.
- Reading Comprehension.
- Speaking.
- Writing.
- Critical Thinking.
- Monitoring.
- Complex Problem Solving.
- Judgment and Decision Making.
- Coordination.
- Instructing.
- Learning Strategies.
- Social Perceptiveness.
- Service Orientation.
- Systems Analysis.
- Systems Evaluation.
- Time Management.
- Persuasion.
- Negotiation.
- Operation Monitoring.