Museum staff sometimes struggle to distinguish art from everyday objects, as seen in a recent incident at the LAM Museum in the Netherlands. An elevator technician, filling in for a regular worker, ...

Museum technicians, commonly known as registrars, help curators by preparing and taking care of museum items. Registrars also may answer questions from the public and help curators and outside ...

A museum technician mistakenly threw away artwork after thinking it was trash left behind by construction workers. The LAM Museum in Lisse, Netherlands, is home to an international art collection that ...

Amber Kreiensieck, W&M CLST major ’19, talks about her experiences in museum work. What is your graduation year, and did you have a double major? I graduated in January 2019 and was a double major of ...

Conservators manage, preserve, treat, and document works of art, artifacts, and specimens—work that may require substantial historical, scientific, and archaeological research. Conservators document ...

Museum Technician Michael Owen (left) and Lead Museum Technician Laura Ostrander. (Photographs by Erik Gould, RISD Museum Photographer. All images courtesy of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI) The ...