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Gallery or Museum Technician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what gallery or museum technicians actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most gallery or museum technicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Gallery and Museum Technician with hands-on experience in exhibition installation, object handling and preventive conservation. Skilled at fabricating mounts and display furniture, running condition checks, and keeping collection records accurate across Vernon CMS and TMS. Comfortable monitoring gallery climate, light and pest activity, and working with curators, conservators and registrars to keep exhibitions safe and on schedule.
Key skills
- Exhibition installation and deinstallation
- Object handling, packing and transport
- Mount making and display fabrication (timber, metal, foam board)
- Condition checking, photography and documentation
- Preventive conservation and environmental monitoring
- Gallery climate, light and pest monitoring
- Inventory management and collection records
- Vernon CMS
- MuseumPlus
- The Museum System (TMS)
- Adobe Photoshop
- AutoCAD
- Attention to detail
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
Experience: example bullet points
- Installed and deinstalled touring exhibitions across multiple gallery spaces, coordinating mount placement and lighting with curators and conservators.
- Condition-checked and photographed collection objects before and after display, updating records in Vernon CMS so provenance and treatment history stayed current.
- Fabricated custom mounts and display supports from timber, metal and foam board, allowing fragile objects to be shown safely without visible support.
- Packed and transported collection items using padded crates and correct handling methods, reducing the risk of damage during internal moves and loan transit.
- Monitored gallery temperature, humidity, light levels and pest traps, escalating issues to conservators before objects were affected.
- Maintained an inventory of display furniture and handling materials, cutting last-minute sourcing delays during exhibition changeovers.
- Liaised with curators, conservators and registrars to schedule object movement and installation, keeping exhibition deadlines on track.
Education
Bachelor degree in museum studies, conservation or a related field, or a Certificate III/IV or diploma in museum practice with hands-on collection experience.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMaGA)
- Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM)
- preventive conservation
- condition reporting
- mount making
- art handling
- collection management
- museum registration
- exhibition installation
- Work Health and Safety (WHS)
- manual handling
- cultural heritage
- Vernon CMS
- MuseumPlus
- The Museum System (TMS)
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.