Exhibition curator
Code 2621.6
Exhibition curators organise and display artworks and artefacts. They work in and for museums, art galleries, museums for science or history, libraries and archives, and in other cultural institutions. In general, exhibition curators work in artistic and cultural exhibition fields and events of all kinds.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- art collections
- art history
- cultural projects
- inheritance council practices
Skills and competences
- apply strategic thinking
- museum databases
- coordinate operational activities
- create new concepts
- create solutions to problems
- coach employees
- ensure safety of exhibition
- listen actively
- advertise an art collection
- have computer literacy
- use ICT resources to solve work related tasks
Transversal competences
- cope with challenging demands
- train employees
- meet deadlines
- evaluate art quality
- provide project information on exhibitions
- manage budgets
- perform project management
- interact with an audience
- organise an exhibition
- plan resource allocation
- present reports
- present exhibition
- work in an organised manner
- work independently on exhibitions
- art-historical values
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences