Graduation Day for Egyptian Museum Registrars
Today the Egyptian Museum, the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) celebrated the graduation of the first registrars in Egypt. This ceremony was a culmination of nearly four years of work on creating a Registrar Department in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and training a team of Egyptians to run the department.
The Egyptian Museum Registrar Training Project, funded by a USAID grant to ARCE’s Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Fund, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been underway since 2007. This project was dedicated to helping the museum develop modern, centralized collections management procedures, and to train a group of young Egyptians to implement this system as Egypt’s first museum registrars. Through daily training by the ARCE staff, as well as quarterly training from outside experts, the staff of the museum’s new Registration, Collections Management and Documentation Department (RCMDD) have learned the policies, practices and skills needed to oversee the centralized management of the museum’s collections. As a part of the program, selected registrars have traveled abroad to take part in registrars’ conferences in the USA and Europe.Dr. Janice Kamrin, Project Director, praised the registrars for their hard word and dedication to this pioneering project. She also expressed her gratitude to the Supreme Council of Antiquities for being a driving force in creating the Egyptian Museum Registrar Department, and to ARCE for funding and supporting the project.
I am very proud of this first group of Egyptian registrars. They have worked very hard in their program and are now among the thousands of young Egyptian workers that have been trained in the latest methods and practices of Egyptology, excavation techniques and museology. I feel confident that the Egyptian Museum’s artifacts are now in excellent hands.
We wish to congratulate the following registrars for their participation in this program:Dr. Hanane Gaber, Head Registrar
Dr. Yasmin El Shazly, Head of Documentation
Ms. Amina El Baroudi, Associate Registrar for the Permanent Collections
Ms. Dalia Galal, Associate Registrar for Loans
Ms. Doha Fathy, Associate Registrar for Exhibitions
Ms. Marwa Abdel Razek, Associate Registrar for Object Movement
Ms. Ghada Tarek, Associate Registrar for IT
Ms. Angy Abdel Aziz, Associate Registrar for Office Management
Mr. Mohamed Osman, Associate Registrar
Ms. Eman Mohamed, Registrarial Assistant
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