Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a museum director can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a museum director already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Museum directors oversee the management of the art collections, artefacts, and exposition facilities. They secure and sell works of art on the one hand, and strive to preserve and maintain the art collection of a museum on the other hand. Moreover, they also manage finances, employees, and marketing efforts of the museum.

Also known as museum and heritage director, director of collections, art collection director, art gallery director, museum manager, head of museum.

Managers 47 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: art handler, 41%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
art handler 41% covered cultural archive manager 36% covered collection manager 34% covered cultural visitor services man… 30% covered exhibition registrar 29% covered museum director You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from museum director, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a museum director already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A museum director needs 25 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • sell art communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on art handling communication, collaboration and creativity
  • supervise art gallery staff management skills
  • implement risk management for works of art information skills
  • liaise with educational institutions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain catalogue collection information skills
  • maintain museum records information skills
  • advise on loans of art work for exhibitions management skills
  • monitor museum environment information skills
  • document museum collection information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a museum director does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Museum director is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a museum director’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.