A Museum Registrar is responsible for implementing policies and procedures that relate to caring for collections of cultural interest and value.

Maintains records of accession, condition, and location of objects in museum collection, and oversees movement, packing, and shipping of objects to conform to insurance regulations; observes unpacking of objects acquired by museum through gift, purchase, or loan to determine that damage or deterioration to objects has not occurred; registers and assigns accession and catalogue numbers to all objects in collection, according to established registration system; composes concise description of objects, and records descriptions on file cards and in collection catalogues; oversees handling, packing, movement, and inspection of all objects entering or leaving the establishment, including traveling exhibits, and confers with other personnel to develop and initiate most practical methods of packing and shipping fragile or valuable objects; maintains records of storage, exhibit, and loan locations of all objects in collection for use of establishment personnel, insurance representatives, and other persons utilizing facilities; prepares acquisition reports for review of curatorial and administrative staff; periodically reviews and evaluates registration and catalogue system to maintain applicability, consistency, and operation; recommends changes in recordkeeping procedures to achieve maximum accessibility to and efficient retrieval of collection objects; arranges for insurance of objects on loan or special exhibition, or recommends insurance coverage on parts of or entire collection.

• Works indoors in offices, work rooms or storage areas within public or private art galleries or museums.
• Works in adequately heated, lit, ventilated and clean workspaces.

• Sedentary physical demand.
• Frequently sits to analyse, plan, evaluate and complete a variety of administration tasks. Likely to work with computerised classification and data research systems.
• Frequently stands and walks about the exhibition or storage spaces while monitoring and supervising museum staff.
• Bending, squatting or crouching is not a significant component of the role.
• Lifting, carrying or pulling is not a significant component of the role.
• Occasional stretching, climbing and twisting is not a significant component of the role.
• Frequent repetitive hand and finger movements are required when using a computer for data entry and data processing.
• Mental skills necessary include computing, administrative, practical, archival, cataloguing, research, evaluation, organisational, decision making and communication capabilities.

Most jobs require a Bachelor Degree or higher qualification. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.