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Museum Registrar[edit]

A Registrar or Collection Manager is a museum or cultural heritage professional responsible for maintenance and care of museum collections. Registrars are part of a museum's collections department. Their jobs are multifaceted.

What does a registrar do?^[1]

Their responsibilities include but are not limited to^[2]:

Information Management^[3]
1. Registrars and collections managers utilize collections management systems (CMS), digital databases utilized for cataloging and organization, and paper files to organize and maintain data and metadata surrounding a collection.
Rights and Reproductions^[4]
1. Rights and reproductions includes granting access and use of a collection, issues include intelectual property, trademarks and copyright.
Temporary and Permanent Loans
1. Registrars organize and develop loan agreements for incoming and outgoing loans, specifying details and making a contract surrounding the temporary or permanent loan of an accessioned object in a collection.
Collection Inventory
Collection Documentation and Maintenance
1. Collections documentation and maintenance includes activities such as tracking the movement of objects in a collection, and ensuring that they are properly stored and cared for.
Packing and Shipping

Insurance

Registrars are responisble for maintaining insurance to protect the museum's collection in case of probable loss.

Exhibitions

Preventive Conservation^[5]involves determining factors that may damage cultural heritage, and taking steps to prevent damage from occuring. Common preventive measures against threats to museum collections by Registrars include:
- 1. Integrated Pest Management
  2. Environmental Monitoring
  3. Safe and Secure Storage
  4. Lighting
  5. Proper Care and Handling
  6. Security

References[edit]

^ Milwaukee Art Museum (2014-09-03), Museum Inside Out: What does a registrar do?, retrieved 2016-02-23
^ Buck, Rebecca (2010). Museum Registration Methods 5th Edition. Washington, DC: the AAM Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1-933253-15-2.
^ "Information Management - ICMS - Museum Resource Center (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
^ Pantalony, Rina (2013). "Managing Intelectual Property for Museums" (PDF). WIPO. World Intelectual Property Organization. Retrieved 2/25/2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
^ "Preventive Conservation Overview". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-23.

[1] Milwaukee Art Museum (2014-09-03), Museum Inside Out: What does a registrar do?, retrieved 2016-02-23

[2] Buck, Rebecca (2010). Museum Registration Methods 5th Edition. Washington, DC: the AAM Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1-933253-15-2.

[3] "Information Management - ICMS - Museum Resource Center (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-25.

[4] Pantalony, Rina (2013). "Managing Intelectual Property for Museums" (PDF). WIPO. World Intelectual Property Organization. Retrieved 2/25/2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

[5] "Preventive Conservation Overview". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-23.

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