Overview
Gallery or Museum Guides answer inquiries and direct and guide visitors in galleries or museums.
Day-to-day
- meets and greets visitors
- controls visitors' access to exhibits
- plans, organises and conducts tours
- arranges entry to places of interest
- answers questions, provides commentaries, issues brochures and tour literature, shows audio-visual presentations, and explains components and procedures at tour sites
- may assist with installing and dismantling exhibits.
Considerations
- Stressful
To become a Gallery and Museum Guide
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You can work as a Gallery or Museum Guide without formal qualifications, however, a course in art, information and cultural service, tourism or guiding may be useful. University and Vocational Education and Training (VET) are both common study pathways.
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