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Museum Technicians and Conservators
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.
Median salary
$47,460
Typical range
$31k – $83k
Job outlook
+5% (faster than average)
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Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
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Junior Museum Technicians and Conservators
Entry / Junior
$30,720
~2 yrs to advance
Museum Technicians and Conservators
Established
$47,460
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Museum Technicians and Conservators
Senior
$65,125
Key skills
A typical day
- •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.
- •Photograph objects for documentation.
- •Determine whether objects need repair and choose the safest and most effective method of repair.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Education
Explore all- University of Michigan18% admit · $87,000 grad pay
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill19% admit · $73,000 grad pay
- University of Wisconsin–Madison49% admit · $72,000 grad pay
- Vanderbilt University7% admit · $88,000 grad pay
- University of Virginia19% admit · $85,000 grad pay
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