Registrar, Creative Arts​/Media, Creative Design ​/ Digital Art

Description Our Mission

The Norman Rockwell Museum illuminates the power of American illustration art to reflect and shape society, and advances the enduring values of kindness, respect, and social equity portrayed by Norman Rockwell.

NRM embraces the values of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion to create a successful workplace and a more equitable society. Our mission embodies these values. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of identities, experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the more successful the organization, its employees, and our work in the world will be.

Norman Rockwell Museum is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to equity and inclusion. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Norman Rockwell Museum is a drug‑free workplace.

Reporting to the Chief of Curatorial Affairs, the Registrar is responsible for all aspects of acquisitions, loans, and exhibition travel arrangements. The Registrar also serves a vital role on a team that includes the Archivist and Collections Manager, and the Director of Exhibitions and Collections. Together, this team organizes all aspects of archives and collections care, housing, and conservation needs, as well as the physical movement of any works in the Museum’s care.

The Registrar also participates in any object‑related aspects of the development and installation of exhibitions including but not limited to condition checks, inventories, and handling. The Registrar also assists in the oversight of rights and reproductions as it relates to collections or exhibition needs.

The Registrar creates and maintains all legal documents, histories of use and physical histories of permanent collection objects; processes artworks and accessions objects into the permanent collection. The position coordinates and implements standards in the creation and maintenance of the collections management system; disseminates information as needed to museum staff, researchers, and members of the public regarding museum collections. The position also provides oversight and documentation of traveling exhibitions and/or objects.

The registrar also initiates and oversees inventory processes, maintains and evaluates insurance for the archives and collections, and establishes and maintains important relationships with shipping vendors, insurance agencies, and legal advisors.

• Creates and updates computerized records in EMu/IMu.
• Ensures and oversees safe packing and transport of artworks to and from the Museum, including permanent collections and works on loan. Acts as a courier and oversees others working in that capacity for loaned artworks and traveling exhibitions. Serves as a liaison to couriers and staff from partner organizations.
• Maintains insurance, appraisal, and other records relating to the collections and exhibitions.
• Organizes necessary conservation interventions for collection and potential loan objects in consultation with the Archives and Collections Manager.
• Creates and maintains loan agreements for objects on long‑term loan to the Museum. Issues certificates of insurance.
• Conducts regular permanent collection inventories; maintains internal and external records relating to object movement.
• Assists with all aspects of the Museum’s exhibition and traveling exhibition program and in the arrangement of complex international and domestic loans, as well as overseeing and assisting with packing and shipping of objects on loan, including condition reports. Acts as a courier for objects on loan.
• Oversees image reproduction rights for Museum publications, catalogues, and interactives; works with rights holders and licensees to provide photographic material from the museum collections; works with staff to schedule and obtain photography of collection objects; maintains records and produces reports.
• Works with the Curatorial team to develop and…