Curatorial Assistant

Description:

Education

• Bachelor's degree
• Historic preservation and conservation, general
• Cultural resource management and policy analysis
• Historic preservation and conservation, other
• Museology/museum studies

Experience

• Experience an asset

Work setting

• Urban area
• Rural area
• Heritage/historical site

Tasks

• Prepare reports
• Assist in the research, handling and storage of artifacts
• Assist with the planning and development of travelling exhibitions and special events
• Classify and assign registration numbers to artifacts and supervise inventory control
• Conduct guided tours of museums, gallery exhibitions and historical, heritage and other sites, answer inquiries and provide information
• Construct displays and dioramas, build models, install artifacts in displays and prepare artifacts for storage and shipping
• Protect and care for cultural artifacts and collections during exhibitions, while in transit and in storage