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.
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.