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 ...

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

Four years ago, Creen Wesemann took a job at the museum. It’s a rare field in the Quad-Cities. The area has relatively few museums, and as a consequence, few museum workers. Creen Wesemann’s job as a ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited each week by Jack Becker, a Librarian at Texas Tech University. This week’s article is by Cameron L. Saffell, Curator of History at the Museum of Texas ...