Museum Curator

A Museum curator with 5-8 years of experience earns around Rs 4-5 lakhs a year.

If you are looking for some of the famous museum curators or art restorer, there are quite a few who indeed are the best in their times.

Sir John Lockwood Kipling, who was the curator in Lahore Museum, was famous for the rare breed of art collections. The museum had some of the finest paintings in the world. The methods and techniques used by this famous curator helped restore even the oldest artwork dated back to centuries. Due to the hard work of this curator, the museum has a large collection of many historic and prehistoric periods.

Dr. Robinson is a world famous curator at the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum. In addition to this, he is also the professor in Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Tech. He is a world famous curator specialized in rare earth elements and minerals. He has not only rested his career as a curator, but also as a researcher, field collector and a teacher. He has also written and published a book “Minerals” in the year 1994, which describes the formation of rare minerals in the nature. He has taken his career with full dedication and anticipation. Thus, being a museum curator, one gets the unique chance of learning, knowing and studying the rarest artworks or other antiques that are priceless in the modern world.

In small museums the curators are responsible for the management and upkeep of the collection. When they are not holding exhibitions and meeting and educating others they maintain the inventory and supervise restoration work. They label the collection and sometimes write briefs about the specimen. Sometimes they go for collections or travel with the exhibits to the exhibition venues.