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Cultural and Heritage Venue operations

Cultural Heritage is the legacy of past generations that is preserved, shared today and kept for future generations. This sector is broad and encompasses historic buildings, landscapes and collections – from towns, cities and rural spaces in the UK to collections from across the world. It stretches beyond the tangible to languages, customs and practices.

The Cultural Heritage sector includes museums, galleries with collections, built heritage, conservation, heritage landscape, and archeology.

On the Intermediate Level Apprenticeship you could work as a Conservation Assistant, where you will be recording objects/making slides, writing a description/drawing it, overseeing cleaning, supporting and repairing/restoring objects, hosting tours for groups, assisting talks/ presentations to amateur and professional audiences, supporting curators, developers, planners, private businesses.

Or as a Front of House and Administration Support staff develop venue knowledge, ticket sales, exhibition group bookings, dealing with customers, supporting setting up and servicing meetings, maintenance and setting up and maintaining systems, such as finance, staff records and visitor numbers.

On the Advanced Level Apprenticeship you could work as an Assistant Archivist, whose role is in supporting acquisition of records and documents for preservation, assisting with cataloguing & indexing, logging requests from the public, developing knowledge regarding the use/interpretation of material, assisting exhibitions and events, researching grant opportunities and assisting with information gathering for application.

Or you could work as an Assistant Museum/Art Gallery Curator who works with others to catalogue and promote collections, researching, assisting with storing and cleaning items in a collection, supporting organising exhibitions and displays.

Job roles

Intermediate Level Apprenticeship