NOC 2021 · 51101 · TEER 1
Conservators and curators
Unit group 51101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Conservators restore and conserve artifacts belonging to museums, galleries and owners of cultural property. Curators recommend the acquisition of museum artifacts and gallery works of art and research their artistic history. Conservators and curators are employed in museums, art galleries, archives, libraries, government agencies and universities. Conservators may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- archaeology curator
- archaeology museum curator
- architectural conservator
- art gallery conservator
- art gallery curator
- art object curator
- art objects conservator
- artifact conservator
- assistant curator
- assistant museum curator
- aviation and space museum curator
- book conservator
- ceramics and glass conservator
- conservator - museum
- contemporary art curator
- contemporary art museum curator
- curator
- ethnographic objects conservator
- ethnology curator
- ethnology museum curator
- fine art and polychrome conservator
- fossil conservator
- fossil curator
- furniture and wooden objects conservator
- herbarium curator
- historical artifact conservator
- insectarium conservator
- insectarium curator
- invertebrate zoology curator
- invertebrate zoology museum curator
- library and archives conservator
- library curator
- metals conservator
- museologist
- museum curator
- museum objects conservator
- natural history museum curator
- natural history specimen conservator
- natural sciences curator
- natural sciences museum curator
- ornithology curator
- ornithology museum curator
- paintings conservator
- paper conservator
- photograph conservator
- photography museum curator
- science and technology curator
- science and technology museum curator
- sculpture conservator
- textile conservator
- vertebrate zoology curator
- vertebrate zoology museum curator
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.