museum scientist
Museum scientists perform and/or manage the curatorial, preparatory and clerical work in general museums, botanical gardens, art galleries, fine arts related collections, aquariums or similar areas. They manage the collections of natural, historical and anthropological material that is educational, scientific or aesthetic in purpose.
Also called: museum researcher, conservationist scientist, museum administrator
- 46
- essential skills
- 9
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
46- advise on acquisitions
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- art collections
- collection management software
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- document museum collection
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- maintain catalogue collection
- maintain museum records
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- monitor museum environment
- museology
- museum databases
- operate open source software
- perform lectures
- perform scientific research
- prepare exhibition programs
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- report analysis results
- select loan objects
- speak different languages
- study a collection
- supervise projects for the conservation of heritage buildings
- supervise special visitors
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- use ICT resources to solve work related tasks
- work with cultural venue specialists
- write scientific publications
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