Occupation Atlasmuseum director
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/cc937d5f-4072-4fe7-bc23-2c9a465b8754
museum director
Museum directors oversee the management of the art collections, artefacts, and exposition facilities. They secure and sell works of art on the one hand, and strive to preserve and maintain the art collection of a museum on the other hand. Moreover, they also manage finances, employees, and marketing efforts of the museum.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (25)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advise on art handling
- advise on loans of art work for exhibitions
- approve reports for artistic project
- art collections
- art history
- art-historical values
- assist clients with special needs
- consult exhibition organisers
- document museum collection
- ensure infrastructure accessibility
- handle artworks
- implement risk management for works of art
- liaise with colleagues
- liaise with educational institutions
- liaise with managers
- liaise with shareholders
- maintain catalogue collection
- maintain museum records
- manage budgets
- manage staff
- monitor museum environment
- museum databases
- plan art educational activities
- sell art
- supervise art gallery staff
Optional (22)
- advertise an art collection
- analyse packaging requirements
- classical antiquity
- collaborate in the development of marketing strategies
- conduct scholarly research
- coordinate marketing plan actions
- develop classification systems
- ensure safety conditions in storage rooms
- evaluate cultural venue visitor needs
- history
- install artwork in gallery
- investigation research methods
- manage fundraising activities
- manage rented goods returns
- marketing management
- marketing principles
- museology
- organise participation in local or international events
- paleontology
- perform fundraising activities
- public relations
- store goods
Closest occupations
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cultural archive manager
8 shared · 11 more of its ownimplement risk management for works of art, advise on loans of art work for exhibitions, monitor museum environment, document museum collection
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collection manager
7 shared · 13 more of its ownimplement risk management for works of art, advise on loans of art work for exhibitions, monitor museum environment, document museum collection
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exhibition registrar
6 shared · 15 more of its ownadvise on art handling, implement risk management for works of art, advise on loans of art work for exhibitions, document museum collection
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exhibition curator
6 shared · 25 more of its ownconsult exhibition organisers, art collections, museum databases, art-historical values
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museum scientist
6 shared · 40 more of its ownmaintain catalogue collection, maintain museum records, monitor museum environment, document museum collection
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commercial art gallery manager
5 shared · 22 more of its ownsell art, supervise art gallery staff, consult exhibition organisers, ensure infrastructure accessibility
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artistic director
5 shared · 32 more of its ownapprove reports for artistic project, art-historical values, art history, manage budgets
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bookshop manager
4 shared · 31 more of its ownliaise with educational institutions, liaise with colleagues, manage budgets, manage staff
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