Description

The Museum of Art & Archaeology, an AAM-accredited teaching and research museum at the University of Missouri, is seeking an experienced Registrar. The Museum’s holdings are worldwide in scope, and include exceptional holdings from antiquity, particularly the Eastern Mediterranean, a Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian paintings dating to the 15th-18th centuries, as well as broader collections of European and American paintings, prints, drawings and other media, including a growing collection of Regionalist and Americanist works from the 19th to 21st centuries.  The Museum also holds strong collections of medieval South Asian sculpture, as well as holdings from East Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America.

The Museum has recently completed reinstallation of its collections following the move to its new location, and is completing an IMLS-funded transition to a new CMS platform to allow greater public access to the 16,000 objects in the Museum’s permanent collection.

Reporting to the Director, the Registrar has broad responsibilities for the management of the Museum’s permanent collection and the facilitation of temporary exhibitions. The position is responsible for a broad range of registration functions including the care, maintenance, and preservation of art works in the Museum’s collection, overseeing and maintaining environmental conditions in storage and exhibition facilities, and the performance of registration functions including accessions, deaccessions, cataloguing and documentation, inventory, loan agreements, condition reports, and insurance and transit arrangements. The Registrar works closely with the other members of the Museum’s professional staff (including curators, chief and assistant preparators, educators, the academic coordinator and the director) in planning exhibitions and museum programming.  The Registrar is required to exercise discretion and judgment in actively managing both the Museum’s collection and art works owned by other institutions or individuals that are part of temporary exhibitions or otherwise on loan to the Museum. The Registrar supervises one full-time collections specialist, and may serve as supervisor to graduate research assistants, interns or volunteers.
Learn more about the Museum at http://maa.missouri.edu

Application Deadline:March 11, 2016
Hiring range: $35,000-$40,000

Requirements

Candidates must minimally have a BA in Art, Art History or Museum Studies, or relevant combination of education and experience. Completion of a graduate program is preferred; if the successful candidate holds a graduate degree s/he may be appointed to the University’s graduate faculty, and be eligible to teach in the University’s Museum Studies graduate minor program.  Significant experience working in museum registration contexts, facility with digital photography and collections management software, and demonstrated knowledge of art handling standards is required  Meticulous work habits and attention to detail, ability to prioritize tasks, and consistency in procedures and quality of effort in all areas of work is essential.  Successful applicant should have experience working with diverse constituencies, including artists, donors, collectors, students, researchers and the general public.

For consideration, please apply online (Job ID 19041), via the University of Missouri Human Resource Services website, at

https://hrprd.umsystem.edu/psp/prd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRPM.HRS_JOB_OPENING.GBL?Action=U&HRS_JOB_OPENING_ID=19041, and include a cover letter describing credentials and experience, as well as a full CV.

 

Job Information
  • Columbia, Missouri, 65211, United States
  • 26930600
  • February 17, 2016
  • Registrar
  • Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
  • Registrar/Collections Management
  • No
  • Full-Time
  • Indefinite
  • BA/BS/Undergraduate
  • 1-2 Years
  • 0-10%
  • $35,000.00 – $40,000.00 (Yearly Salary)