Designs museum galleries, trade-show booths, and visitor centers.
You map how visitors will walk through a dinosaur hall and where a kid should press a button to hear a T. rex roar. Then you check fabrication drawings with carpenters building the displays.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in exhibit, interior, industrial, or architectural design.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Exhibit Design, Industrial Design, Architecture, Theatre Design.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years). Set and exhibit designers, BLS projection.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI speeds concept renders and graphic layouts; designing physical exhibits that fit real spaces, budgets and visitors stays human.
Classes: Studio art, Graphic design, Theater tech crew.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-1027.
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