Australian GovernmentStudy Australia

Gallery, Museum and Tour Guides


What the job involves

  • 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