NOC 2021 · 53100 · TEER 3
Registrars, restorers, interpreters and other occupations related to museum and art galleries
Unit group 53100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Registrars, restorers, interpreters and workers in other occupations related to museums and art galleries classify and catalogue museum artifacts and gallery works of art, construct and install exhibits and displays, restore, maintain and store museum and gallery collections, frame artwork, and perform other functions in support of curatorial and conservation activities. They are employed in museums and galleries. Picture framers and taxidermists may also be employed in retail settings or may be self-employed. This unit group also includes museum and other interpreters who conduct guided tours. They are employed by art galleries, museums, parks, aquariums, zoos, interpretive centres, botanical gardens, cultural centres, nature sanctuaries, historic and heritage sites, and other locations.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aircraft restoration technician - museum
- aquarium interpreter
- archaeological technician
- art gallery preparator
- art gallery registrar
- art objects preparator
- art restoration technician
- assistant registrar - museum
- botanical garden interpreter
- cataloguer - museum
- chief display officer - museum
- chief exhibit officer - museum
- chief preparator
- chief preparator - museums and art galleries
- communications equipment restoration technician - museum
- community museum technician
- conservation and restoration technician
- conservation area interpreter
- conservation technician - museums and art galleries
- curatorial assistant
- dinosaur museum interpreter
- diorama maker - museums and art galleries
- diorama technician
- display officer - museums and art galleries
- document restoration technician
- ecological interpreter
- exhibit officer - museum
- exhibit preparator
- exhibit technician
- fossil recovery and reparation technician
- frame fitter - museums and art galleries
- framer - museum and art gallery
- framing technician
- head preparator - museums and art galleries
- heritage interpreter
- historic site interpreter
- historical interpreter
- historical site technician
- historical village supervisor
- historical village technician
- history museum interpreter
- insectarium interpreter
- interpretive guide - museum
- model maker-preparator
- museology technician
- museum cataloguer
- museum exhibit officer
- museum extension officer
- museum interpreter
- museum objects cataloguer
- museum objects preparator
- museum preparator
- museum registrar
- museum technician
- museum technician - earth's history and paleontology
- natural habitat interpreter
- nature interpreter
- nature site interpreter
- ornithology centre interpreter
- paintings restoration technician
- park interpreter
- picture framer - museum and art gallery
- planetarium interpreter
- planetarium technician
- preparator
- railway equipment restoration technician - museum
- recording technician - museum
- regional museum technician
- restoration technician - museum
- road transport equipment restoration technician - museum
- taxidermist
- taxidermy technician
- technical officer - museum
- wilderness interpreter
- zoo interpreter
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$20.53 an hour
Low $16.00, high $31.00
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$25.00
- Cape Breton · Nova Scotia$24.97
- Ottawa · Ontario$24.00
- Montréal · Quebec$22.92
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$22.74
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $20.79 | $16.00 – $23.13 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $22.00 | $18.00 – $45.64 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $19.23 | $16.50 – $26.90 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $17.67 | $15.65 – $21.31 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $20.00 | $16.10 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $21.70 | $17.60 – $35.71 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $18.85 | $16.00 – $26.72 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $21.50 | $15.35 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $21.80 | $16.50 – $31.99 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $25.00 | $19.00 – $33.91 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $22.33 | $18.40 – $28.85 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 36 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $20.22 | $17.50 – $26.68 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $24.97 | $16.64 – $29.58 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $19.13 | $16.50 – $21.30 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $16.57 | Not published | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $20.48 | $18.08 – $28.19 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $20.07 | $17.65 – $25.56 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $22.92 | $18.02 – $28.94 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $21.07 | $19.25 – $26.96 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $20.07 | $18.37 – $28.85 | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $24.00 | $18.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $21.70 | $17.60 – $32.00 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.74 | $17.60 – $27.83 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $21.89 | $17.60 – $27.06 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $20.97 | $17.60 – $25.46 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $21.80 | $16.50 – $31.99 | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $21.80 | $16.50 – $31.99 | Limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $25.00 | $20.00 – $33.00 | Limited |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. 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.