Here’s a little something from the humor page at Registrar Trek: The Next Generation, including Registrar’s Jokes and You Might Be a Registrar If…
For those of you who are a member of the general public or for those who work in a larger institution, a registrar is the museum professional tasked with maintaining collections records, supervising object handling and transportation, and overseeing collections-related contracts and policies. According to our best research, they all look like this
At least, we think so. To our knowledge we have never seen a registrar and neither has anyone else. But they have a web page (and someone keeps telling the educators they can’t do whatever they want with the collection), so they must exist.
Peabody's Lament 
October 30th, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Yeah, we registrars really do exist. Every preparator or curator of a borrowing or lending exhibition has a story about us. Pretty much like the sherpa people about the Yeti…but unlike the Yeti, if we appear, we make sure our appearance is well-documented!
October 30th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Careful with the Yeti association. They may have just disproved their existence. But it is true that everyone seems to have a registrar story. Ours is that we’ve often heard registrars refer to themselves as the “unsung heroes” of museums.
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November 1st, 2013 at 6:40 pm
I can vouch for the “someone keeps telling the educators they can’t do whatever they want with the collection” part because I feel that’s all my office does! We say it to the designers too…equal opportunity bubble bursting. 😉
December 22nd, 2014 at 9:56 am
[…] collections people!“ Recently, there was a funny bit about registrars on Peabody’s Lament (https://peabodyslament.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/registrar-humor/) and in the comment section the author T.H. Grey stated „…we’ve often heard registrars […]
December 22nd, 2014 at 9:57 am
[…] uns, die Sammlungsleute tun. Vor kurzem gab es Beitrag über Registare bei Peabody’s Lament (https://peabodyslament.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/registrar-humor/) und in der Kommentarspalte stellte der Author, T.H. Grey fest: „ .. wir haben schon oft von […]