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Gallery or Museum Guide
OFO Code: 511301
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 511301
- Occupation
- Gallery or Museum Guide
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SERVICE AND SALES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 5113 · Travel Guides
Official description
Travel guides accompany individuals or groups on trips, sightseeing tours and excursions and on tours of places of interest such as historical sites, industrial establishments and theme parks. They describe points of interest and provide background information on interesting features.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Museum or Gallery Attendant, Gallery Assistant, Museum Host and Tour Coordinator
- Greeting and registering visitors and tour participants, and issuing any required identification badges or safety devices
- Providing for physical safety of groups, and performing activities such as providing first aid and directing emergency evacuations
- Resolving any problems with tour itineraries, service, or accommodation
- Conducting educational activities for school children
- Describing and providing information on points of interest and exhibits and responding to questions
- Monitoring visitors' activities to ensure compliance with establishment or tour regulations and safety practices
- Distributing brochures, showing audiovisual presentations, and explaining procedures and operations at tour sites
- Escorting visitors through places of interest such as museums, exhibitions, theme parks, factories and other industrial establishments
- Escorting and guiding tourists on cruises and sightseeing tours
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.