Library, Museum, and Art Gallery Managers
Job description
These individuals manage the activities of a conservation or exhibition space. They work in:
- Libraries
- Archival services
- Museums
- Art galleries
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Plan, direct, control, and evaluate the institutions’ activities.
- Develop and administer policies, programs, and budgets.
- Prepare and implement, alongside a team, a communication and marketing plan.
- Implement projects.
- Apply for grants and funding.
- Prepare operational and financial analyses, recommendations, and reports.
- Ensure human resources management (recruit, train, manage, evaluate).
- Fulfill, as required, the functions of a librarian, archivist, or curator.
- Ensure the management of the institution’s material resources.
- Develop and implement the institution’s strategic plan.
Advancement and mobility
- These individuals may specialize in a particular kind of collection.
- There is some mobility between library managers and archives managers.
- There is some mobility between museum managers and art gallery managers.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 71.4% Female
- 28.6% Male
Not available.
- 71.4% Female
- 28.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$82,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 7150% of jobs
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NAICS 5138% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 459% of jobs
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NAICS 812% of jobs
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NAICS 324, 3251% of jobs
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Others0% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 7150% of jobs
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NAICS 5138% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 459% of jobs
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NAICS 812% of jobs
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NAICS 324, 3251% of jobs
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Others0% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
Library Managers
- Graduate diploma in Library and Information Science.
- Several years of experience as a librarian, including supervisory experience.
Archives Managers
- Postgraduate degree in archival or historical studies.
- Several years of experience as an archivist or in historical research, including supervisory experience.
Sometimes required
Museum or Art Gallery Managers
- A graduate degree in museology, cultural organization management, or in a field related to a related discipline may be required.
- Training program in arts administration may be required.
- Several years of experience as a manager in the cultural community may be required.
- Experience in other aspects of museology and art gallery work may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Written expression
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Active learning
- Solving complex problems
- Human resource management
- Financial resource management
- Result evaluation
- Persuasion
- System analysis
- Mathematics
- Service oriented
- Systems evaluation
- Time management
- Coordination
- Material resource management
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Social perception
Abilities
- Deductive reasoning
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Mathematical reasoning
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Awareness of issues
- Basic numeracy
- Near vision
- Speech recognition
- Classification
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Processing flexibility
- Selective attention
- Perception speed
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Leadership
- Political sense
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Sense of initiative
- Creativity
- Knowledge of the arts
- Knowledge of history and archeology
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Official name of the NOC 50010
Library, archive, museum and art gallery managers
Job titles
- Art gallery chief curator
- Library director
- Art gallery director
- Archives director
- Museum director
- Assistant art gallery administrator
- Assistant museum administrator
- Arts administrator
- Art gallery administrator
- Historic sites administrator
- Museum administrator
- Archives chief
- Deputy librarian
- Administrative librarian
- Division librarian
- Chief librarian
- Technical services head librarian
- Head of cataloguing
- Art gallery coordinator
- Museum coordinator
- Art gallery assistant director
- Assistant museum director
- Assistant director of historical park
- Assistant director of archives
- Museum executive director
- Museum general director
- Regional library director
- Curator-director - museum
- Museum director of conservation
- Conservation director
- Historical park director
- Archival document manager
- Museum manager
- Chief conservator
- Historical park assistant superintendent
- Historical park superintendent
Skill type
Art, culture, recreation and sport
Last update: January 29, 2026
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