Job Duties for Conservators and curators
Conservators
- Examine artifacts, determine their condition, suggest methods for treating them and recommend preventive conservation techniques to their owners
- Restore and conserve paintings, photographs, sculptures, furniture, pottery and other museum and art gallery artifacts
- Provide advice on display and storage of museum and gallery artifacts to ensure proper maintenance and preservation
- Research new conservation and restoration techniques
- Provide consultation to museums, art galleries or private individuals
- Supervise conservation technicians and other museum technicians.
Curators
- Recommend the acquisition of paintings, photographs, sculptures, documents and other museum and art gallery artifacts
- Research origins and artistic history of artifacts
- Develop storylines and themes and organize displays and exhibitions
- Co-ordinate the storage of collections and the setting up of displays and exhibitions
- Oversee the conservation, display and circulation of collections
- Supervise curatorial assistants and other museum technicians.
Conservators and curators may specialize in a particular type of collection or material, such as furniture, weapons, books, paintings and musical instruments.
Working Conditions for Conservators and curators
Work is performed indoors.
Alternate Job Titles
- Archaeology Curator
- Archaeology Museum Curator
- Art Gallery Conservator
- Art Gallery Curator
- Art Object Curator
- Artifact Conservator
- Assistant Curator
- Assistant Museum Curator
- Aviation And Space Museum Curator
- Ceramics And Glass Conservator
- Conservator - Art Objects
- Conservator - Museum
- Contemporary Art Curator
- Contemporary Art Museum Curator
- Curator
- Ethnology Curator
- Ethnology Museum Curator
- Fine Art And Polychrome Conservator
- Fossil Conservator
- Fossil Curator
- Furniture And Wooden Objects Conservator
- Herbarium Curator
- Historical Artifact Conservator
- Insectarium Conservator
- Insectarium Curator
- Invertebrate Zoology Curator
- Invertebrate Zoology Museum Curator
- Library Curator
- Metals Conservator
- Museologist
- Museum Curator
- Museum Objects Conservator
- Natural History Museum Curator
- Natural History Specimen Conservator
- Natural Sciences Curator
- Natural Sciences Museum Curator
- Ornithology Curator
- Ornithology Museum Curator
- Paintings Conservator
- Paper Conservator
- Photograph Conservator
- Photography Museum Curator
- Science And Technology Curator
- Science And Technology Museum Curator
- Sculpture Conservator
- Textile Conservator
- Vertebrate Zoology Curator
- Vertebrate Zoology Museum Curator
- Art Gallery Conservator
- Conservator - Art Objects
- Conservator - Museum
- Curator
- Historical Artifact Conservator
- Natural History Museum Curator
- Assistant Curator