Gallery, Museum and Tour Guide

Overview

Gallery, Museum and Tour Guides direct and guide visitors in galleries and museums, and escort visitors on sightseeing, educational and other tours.

Day-to-day

• meeting and greeting visitors
• controlling visitors' access to exhibits
• ensuring safety of collections
• maintaining attendance records
• planning and rearranging schedules and itineraries
• planning, organising and conducting tours
• arranging transportation and accommodation for visitors following planned itineraries
• arranging entry to places of interest
• answering questions, providing commentaries, issuing brochures and tour literature, showing audiovisual presentations, and explaining features and procedures at tour sites
• may assist with installing and dismantling exhibits.

Considerations

• irregular hours
• stressful.