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2. Museum docent - Wikipedia

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   Museum docent is a title given in the United States of America to people who serve as guides and educators for the institutions they serve, usually as a volunteer (unpaid) position. The English word itself is derived from the Latin word docēns , the present active participle of docēre (to teach, to lecture).

3. Museum education - Wikipedia

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   Museum education falls under the broad category of informal education. Informal education is defined as "...any organized educational activity outside the established formal system—whether operating separately or as an important feature of some broader activity—that is intended to serve identifiable learning clienteles and learning objective". [2]

4. Art handler - Wikipedia

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   Art handler packing an artwork in a crate. An art handler, also sometimes called an art preparator, is a trained individual who works directly with objects in museums, art galleries and various other venues including private collectors, corporate art collections, public art collections and various other institutions.

5. Registrar (cultural property) - Wikipedia

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   Many institutions now require a graduate education in museum studies or field relating to the museum's collections in this competitive job market. Candidates are also expected to have hands-on experience in museum collection database management, object packing and handling, digitization, collections cataloging, and accession and loan procedures.

6. Curator - Wikipedia

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   Curator and exhibit designer dress a mannequin for an exhibit.. A curator (from Latin: cura, meaning 'to take care') [1] is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission.

7. Museum attendant - Wikipedia

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   A museum attendant (or gallery attendant) looks after a gallery in a museum for security reasons, to help museum visitors, ...

8. Teaching kit (museum) - Wikipedia

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   A teaching kit is a teaching resource developed by a museum education department with to create cross-curricular learning. Such kits often include many resources, such as an educators' guide, a CD-ROM with works of art and primary sources (letters, maps, period photographs), overhead transparencies, posters, curricula, and step-by-step lesson plans.

9. Metropolitan Museum of Art Schools - Wikipedia

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   John Ward Stimson, a former Museum superintendent who became the head of the Museum Schools, oversaw the development of the Schools from thirty to four hundred students in seventeen classes by 1888. At this point, two-thirds of the Schools' were women, and Stimson was adamant that the School had the potential to provide women with vocational ...