For instance, a registrar arranges the details of a loan once it is approved by the curatorial staff. A conservator usually specialises in works either on paper or canvas and is therefore required to have advanced scientific training. Museum work can, and usually does, begin without specialised training but the University of Sydney and Prahran Campus, Melbourne offer postgraduate courses in Museology. These can be taken after your BA degree here and contain some although not a great deal of practical work within a museum. Most staff in the education sections of museums have educational degrees as well as art history, but each case and museum varies.
Conservation is highly specialised and requires advanced scientific study.
The only place in Australia to offer training is the Canberra University. Outside Australia there are excellent and longer courses in America and London. Australians have attended the Courtauld Institute, which has a three year course. Conservators are much needed in Australia. There are very few trained persons in the country for art works and it is likely to be an area in which a number of jobs may be created.