Certificate IV in Museum Practice

Course overview

This course provides skills, knowledge and understanding of the museums and gallery practices necessary to work in technical, and operational positions in the museum sector.

The course gives a foundation of core museum industry practices, including occupational safety and provides opportunity for optional study in specialised museum and gallery areas such as collection functions, conservation, communication, administration, accounting and customer focused skills to work within a museum, gallery or similar enterprise.

The course is designed for delivery and/or assessment on the job and within an operational museum or gallery environment. Sometimes this may mean delivery occurs across locations, in partnership with other Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), local museums or regional galleries.

Course structure

The course structure below shows what you must do to complete this course. Units/modules are arranged in groups and sometimes also in subgroups.

You must complete each group as specified as well as following the course completion instructions. If a course contains optional groups there will be a statement at the top of the course indicating how many you must do. At the top of any group containing optional subgroups there will be a statement
saying how many you must do.

Distance Study Option

A total of 13 units must be completed - 4 core units plus 9 elective units.

CORE UNITS

All module/units must be completed

Modules/Units	Name
BSBFLM404A	Lead work teams
CUEOHS01C	Implement workplace health, safety and security procedures
CULMS009B	Implement preventive conservation activities
CULMS201C	Develop and apply knowledge of the museum industry

ELECTIVE UNITS

All 9 module/units must be completed

Modules/Units	Name
CULLB510C	Develop and maintain community/stakeholder relationships
CULMS003B	Move/store cultural material
CULMS005B	Research and generate ideas for exhibition concepts
CULMS007B	Design and develop interpretive displays
CULMS011B	Develop a disaster preparedness plan
CULMS407C	Install and dismantle exhibition elements
CULMS411C	Prepare display accommodation for cultural material
CULMS412C	Record and maintain collection information
CULMS506C	Plan and develop activities, events and programs

Career Opportunities

Employed art worker; self-employed arts or crafts related project worker; curator; curatorial/technical assistant, in support of museum or gallery operation. Other opportunities exist in areas such as community arts, art galleries, museums, arts consultancy, administration, conservation and so on.

Entry Requirements

Completion of Year 12 with minimum of 10 units in the NSW Higher School Certificate Record of Achievement (or equivalent statement from another educational authority), or a Certificate II or III in Museum Practice, Fine Arts, Visual Arts or equivalent, or employment as a trainee in a museum or gallery workplace.

Articulation

When you finish this course you can do other TAFE NSW courses in museum practices, fine arts, ceramics, visual arts, or courses at university.

Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is the process of assessing a candidate’s competence based on evidence other than a recent testamur listing identical or equivalent units. Evidence that may be used for recognition includes (but is not limited to)

older testamur listing identical or equivalent units together with evidence of currency

current testamur listing similar, but not equivalent, units of competence together with evidence of competence in the gaps between those units and the target units

evidence of competence gained through informal learning and/or work experience

Credit Transfer is the process of acknowledging successful completion of one or more units of competence with TAFE NSW or any other RTO. To have those units credited towards the current qualification, the student must be able to provide a testamur with transcript of competencies achieved.

If the date of the testamur is more than three years prior to the current enrolment the candidate will need to demonstrate that their competencies are still current. This changes the process from credit transfer to recognition.

Note: For Credit Transfer and RPL - Units are only considered ‘equivalent’ if the current Training Package lists them as such in the mapping of units from the immediately previous version of that Training Package.

Sub courses
Certificate IV in Museum Practice - Unit Details
Lead work teams	BSBFLM404A
Implement workplace health, safety and security procedures	CUEOHS01C
Develop and maintain community/stakeholder relationships	CULLB510C
Move/store cultural material	CULMS003B
Research and generate ideas for exhibition concepts	CULMS005B
Design and develop interpretive displays	CULMS007B
Implement preventive conservation activities	CULMS009B
Develop a disaster preparedness plan	CULMS011B
Develop and apply knowledge of the museum industry	CULMS201C
Install and dismantle exhibition elements	CULMS407C
Prepare display accommodation for cultural material	CULMS411C
Record and maintain collection information	CULMS412C
Plan and develop activities, events and programs	CULMS506C