Also called: Director of learning (museum), Education curator
Plans school programs, tours, workshops, and family days at a museum.
Museum education managers design field-trip programs, train docents, create activity guides, and run summer camps among the exhibits.
Estimate based on BLS curators.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in art history, history, science, or education; master's common.
Ways in: Graduate school, 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Museum Studies, Art History, Education.
Growing faster than average (about 6% over 10 years). BLS projects archivists, curators, and museum workers to grow faster than average.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps write activity guides, but leading field trips, training docents and running camps among exhibits stay human.
Classes: AP US History or AP Art History, Speech, Theater.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-4012.
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