The document discusses the roles, skills, education, salaries, employers, and job outlook for historians and curators. Historians study historical records to reconstruct past events, write books and articles, and may work as professors or for museums, archives, film companies, and historical sites. Curators design museum exhibits, plan projects, help maintain artifacts and exhibits, give tours, and create displays. Both require skills like writing, communication, patience, and being detail-oriented. Historians and curators can expect salaries ranging from $25,000 to $115,000 depending on their role, with job growth projected between 7-25% in the next decade.
2. Basic tasks for a historian
They have to know how to design exhibits
Organize and collect artifacts for displays
Store historical records
Write books and articles
Study letter, books, film, newspapers, and other historical
records of the past
They try to reconstruct events based on records
3. What do curators do in museums
Curators design the exhibits for the artifacts
Also they plan the special research projects
They help to clean the exhibits and artifacts
They also give tours
Also they need to study records
Be able to create good displays
And be good at giving presentations to lots of people
4. What skills do you need
Have to major in history
You must be patient
Have writing and communication skills
And curious
Detail oriented
may have to know more than one language
5. Salary
Make a usual of $40,000 per year to $115,000 per year for
professors
And $25,000 to $86,000 dollars per year for curators
The earning for historians that work for production agency's
can vary
6. Who do they work for
• Historians work for museums and archives
• Some historians work for colleges as professors or teachers
• Some are private historians
• Some work for the TV industry's Or film production
• Some have to work at historical sites
7. Job outlook in the future
It is expected to grow 14 percent from now to 2020 over all
Conservators is expected to grow 7 percent
16 percent for museum technicians
Curators is expected to grow 25 percent
The demand for historians will rise
It is likely that there will be strong competition for the jobs
8. education
To be a historian you need to have had a 4 year college or
university education
You must have a master degree
Or a bachelors degree may be required for film production
A PhD is often required for certain fields of work
Have to major in history
The PhD takes 1-2 years
The bachelors degree also takes 1-2 years