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   16th March 2020  In  Industry Trends And Critical Analysis ,  Training And Employability   I am a first-year university student studying Liberal Arts with a focus on Philosophy and Art History and I have recently had the opportunity to complete a work placement with Culture Syndicates. I have a particular interest in the conservation of paintings, which turns out to be a rather niche section of the job market, and one which requires an awful lot of training and experience. Before this I hadn’t spent much time looking into the realities of a career in the heritage sector, but my mind was filled with dreamy images of being surrounded by beautiful historical artefacts and doing my part to conserve and restore them. As I began to research art and museum conservation master’s degrees, I realised that it would be a slightly more complicated process to get my dream job than I had imagined. Masters courses are few and far between and the thought of spending anot...

   9th March 2020  In  Industry Trends And Critical Analysis ,  Training And Employability   It’s the beginning of a new decade and we at Culture Syndicates have been thinking about what the museum sector workforce might be like by 2030. Our vision for 2030 is that entry into the museum sector will be fairer, leading to a diverse and resilient workforce. The industry will be open to people from a range of backgrounds; a candidate’s personal qualities and transferable skills will be more important than their qualifications; an array of high-quality training opportunities will be available to sector entrants; a clear entry-level structure will exist within museum careers; and volunteering will not be a prerequisite to paid employment in museums. ( If you are doubting that our cash poor sector can achieve this vision then please bear with us and read on ). We would argue that the current state of sector entry in museums is at best disorganised, at worst unethi...