Registrar & Manager

Description:

The MIT List Visual Arts Center seeks a Registrar & Manager, Collections to serve as the custodian of the Institute’s permanent collections of contemporary and modern art and spearhead database management and registration duties. This position is primarily responsible for overseeing the care and welfare of the Institute’s Campus Art Collection, totaling over 4,000 works, most of which is publicly sited throughout the Institute. Through the Campus Art Loan Program, artwork from our Campus Lending Collection is made available to Administration, Faculty, and Staff offices, so that the MIT campus itself serves as a museum. This position is also responsible for the management of the Student Lending Art Collection. This position will oversee the care and maintenance of this collection and provide support to the Exhibitions Registrar as needed on the logistics of the lending program and annual exhibition. This position will consult on the conservation needs of the Institute’s third collection, Public Art, which are sited across campus and are primarily managed by a separate position within the List Center.