Assistant Registrar

Description:

Responsibilities & Duties

• Team Participation
• Encourage and contribute to an inclusive, rewarding, and inspiring workplace, where innovation, discovery, and constant learning cultivate a deep sense of belonging and shared responsibility within the Registration team.
• Share in fostering a culture of safety, inclusivity, and equity.
• Work in a healthy and flexible style, and models empathy and understanding.
• Participate in nurturing collaboration and partnership across teams with fluid communication and respect for diverse expertise essential to an art museum.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the museum’s strategic focus of making programming that engages visitors and inspires individuals to return and recommend the museum to their family and friends.
• Represent the museum at the local, national, and international levels.
• Participate in professional networks, workshops, and programs to stay current with relevant practices, methods, and technologies, as well adding new skills to share with the department.

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  Accessions and Deaccessions
• Assist with arrangements for acquisitions to the collection:
• Coordinate safe packing, shipping, movement, and handling of artworks.
• Communicate with lenders, donors, packers, vendors, forwarding agents and shippers.
• Examine artworks and produce condition reports, documenting the condition and characteristics of artworks, so that changes in condition can be well managed.
• Coordinate matting and framing of artworks.
• Oversee preparation and installation/deinstallation of works for Accessions Committee meetings.
• Arrange for return of works not accessioned.
• Coordinate examinations and treatments with Conservation.
• Facilitate storage of accessioned objects.
• Assist with ensuring that the museum adheres to agreed-upon terms related to registration activities in co-ownership, purchase, and other art agreements.
• Work with Associate Registrars and Collections Management to manage numbering systems for accessioned works and their accessories.
• Assist with arrangements for deaccessions from the collection.