Morning: Read the papers to know what is happening in town, especially in other galleries and museums

• 10am: Reach workplace, plan for upcoming exhibition, draft press release, make a round of display spaces under your charge, answer mails, attend team meeting. Do one or all of these
• 1pm: Lunch
• 2pm: Work in the gallery spaces, plan or hold an education workshop, meet people, read the latest regarding international museum practices, work on regular accounts and database entries. The work may involve some or all of the above
• 6pm: Head home. On days prior to exhibition openings, stay till 9pm

• A grounding in a basic subject like history, art history, (science if you intend to work in a science museum)
• Management skills, communication skills, visualisation skills
• You must have research and writings skills, understand the material and be able to re-write or translate it for your audiences, both inside and outside the museum

Graduates in various disciplines can enrol for a master’s in museology. Candidates with a bachelor’s or master’s in history, ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, Sanskrit, fine arts, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, earth science, agriculture, environmental science, and marine science can apply. Check individual institution’s requirements as well.

• National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New Delhi (M.A. in Museology)
• MS University of Baroda, Vadodara (M.A. fine in Museology)
• University of Calcutta, Kolkata (M.A./M.Sc in Museology)
• BHU (M.A in Museology) 
• Aligarh Muslim University (M.Sc/Post M.Sc Diploma in Museology)