Museum Careers
Exhibitions
Best Virtual Museums
Types of Museums
International Museum Associations
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This person cares for the items in the museum, keeping them safe.

What is the conservator?

100

Curators consider theme and public interest. Sometimes this is based on a tribute to famous artist.

What is how art work is chosen for display.

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This online-only museum is definitely the best when it comes to unique virtual museum experiences. This site offers an insight into collections ranging from fine arts to martial arts and performing arts to traditional art forms such as dolls. This website also has a virtual museum theatre, where you can learn more about Japanese festivals or martial arts.
What is the Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Art?
100
It is also known as an art gallery, a space for the exhibition of art, usually in the form of art objects from the visual arts, primarily paintings, illustrations, and sculptures. Collections of drawings and old master prints are often not displayed on the walls but kept in a print room.
What is an art museum?
100
The AAMG.
What is the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries?
200
This person is in charge of the whole museum and represents the museum in contacts with the public.
What is a director?
200

1. Pick a place to display art work.

2. Choose art work that fits a theme or message.

3. Frame art work.

4. Write out an art tag with information on the artist and the art work.

5. Write an artist's statement about the work.

What is how to create an exhibition?

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This New York City-based virtual museum gives visitors access to a selection of 1.600 works of art referred to as the "Collection Online" but it does not provide virtual tours. It also features over 7,000 works, as well as the Peggy ** Collection, Venice, and the ** Museum Bilbao.
What is the Guggenheim?
200
This museum covers the knowledge of history and its relevance to the present and future. Some cover specialized curatorial aspects of history or a particular locality; others are more general. Such museums contain a wide range of objects, including documents, artifacts of all kinds, art, archaeological objects
What is a history museum?
200
The MSA.
What is the Museum Store Association?
300

This person is usually the expert in charge of one or more types of collections, also oversees the care, display, and information about the objects in their areas. This person chooses which pieces are put on display.

What is a curator?

300

A permanent or temporary display of art and/or artifacts that are considered valuable. 

What is an exhibition?

300
This online museum has exhibits dedicated to history, art and culture. Although it does not provide 360 degree online tours or special multimedia offerings, it does have a vast detailed exhibit display with audio descriptions. It has a Word in Art section which features various exhibits made of paper.
What is the British Museum?
300
Today, this museum is largely an extinct subtype of a museum. It has a few notable exceptions, such as the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in Glasgow, Scotland. Its origins date back to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities which often featured displays of human skeletal material and other materia medica.
What is a medical museum?
300
The VSA.
What is the Visitor Studies Association?
400
This person welcomes visitors to the museum, in addition to guiding and teaching the visitors during a tour of the museum.
What is docent?
400
This online museum offers virtual tours to visitors to view such collections like the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and European antiques, paintings, sculptures, and more. It also offers virtual tours of its Egyptian antiques, Galerie d’Apollon and the remains of its famous moat. You can zoom into images and learn more details about each exhibit.
What is the Louvre?
400
This museum revolves around scientific achievements, its marvels, and its history. It explains complicated inventions, a combination of demonstrations, interactive programs, and thought-provoking media are often used. Some museums may have exhibits on topics such as computers, aviation, railway museums, physics, astronomy, and the animal kingdom.
What is a science and/or technology?
400
The ICOM.
What is the International Council of Museums?
500
This person plans the layout and display of objects, decides on wall colors and arrangments of objects, and installs the objects in the museum.
What is exhibit designer?
500
It is one of the world's largest and most visited art museums in the world. It opened in 1793 and includes exhibits from diverse origins as ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, medieval Europe and Napoleonic France. Its most famous exhibit is Leonardo de Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa.
What is the Louvre? (in Paris)
500
This interactive site allows visitors to view special collections from the Air and Space Museum to the sculpture garden, watch videos, listen to audio tracks, and even view various images from a 360-degree angle, thereby providing as close to a real in-person experience as possible.
What is the Smithsonian?
500
This type of museum developed in the 1990s and is generally defined as a short term institution existing in a temporary space. This museum has been increasing in favor among more progressive museum professionals as a means of direct community involvement with objects and exhibition. Often, this concept relies solely on visitors to provide both the objects on display and the accompanying labels with the professionals or institution providing only the theme of the pop-up and the space in which to display the objects.
What is a pop-up museum?
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The ICHSMC.
What is the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
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