From collection manager to exhibition registrar
11 of the 21 essential skills of a exhibition registrar are already essential for a collection manager — about 52% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 10
- would be new
- 52%
- of the target job covered
- 21
- essential skills of a exhibition registrar
What a exhibition registrar does
Exhibition registrars organise, manage and document movement of museum artefacts to and from storage, display and exhibitions. This happens in collaboration with private or public partners such as art transporters, insurers and restorers, within the museum and outside.
What carries over
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- advise on loans of art work for exhibitions
- assess museum object condition
- collection management software
- conservation techniques
- cope with challenging demands
- document museum collection
- implement risk management for works of art
- museum databases
- respect cultural differences in the field of exhibition
- supervise artefact movement
- use ICT resources to solve work related tasks
What would be new
10 skillsEssential for a exhibition registrar and not for a collection manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from collection manager
1 roles- cultural archive manager11 skills in common
← collection managerexhibition registrar →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a exhibition registrar?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.