The Museum Registrar as ‘Assembled Role’: A Productive Conceptualization of Collections Management Practice?

Registrars are an integral part of many contemporary museums, yet theirs is a role that can be difficult to grasp with any certainty. By examining the interconnected functions and duties constitute registrar practice, this article seeks determine its scope greater clarity. To establish context rationale for study, I explore reasons development competing perceptions surrounding profession. The then surveys definitions present in published literature identify most commonly identified practice. Using principles assemblage theory, it fashions new interpretation practice from individual processes widely ascribed it. resulting ‘assembled role’ encompasses fields resource management, logistics, risk management. This concept harnessed complexities by considering their acquisition born-digital meme. concludes advocating further critical examination museum registrars anticipating continuing importance work museums.