How do they match: Museum Technicians and Conservators

  • Museum Technicians and Conservators

  • Conservation Worker
  • Lace and Textiles Restorer
  • Paper and Prints Restorer

  • 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.

  • Clean objects, such as paper, textiles, wood, metal, glass, rock, pottery, and furniture, using cleansers, solvents, soap solutions, and polishes.
  • Estimate cost of restoration work.
  • Perform on-site field work which may involve interviewing people, inspecting and identifying artifacts, note-taking, viewing sites and collections, and repainting exhibition spaces.
  • Preserve or direct preservation of objects, using plaster, resin, sealants, hardeners, and shellac.
  • Specialize in particular materials or types of object, such as documents and books, paintings, decorative arts, textiles, metals, or architectural materials.
  • Supervise and work with volunteers.