Museum AdministratorMuseum administrators can move on to work as curators, interpreters, ... Also beneficial to anyone looking to work as a museum administrator is a masters ...
www.schoolsintheusa.com/careerprofiles_details.cfm?carid...

Régisseur is often translated as floor manager, and this seems to apply to the context of museums :

"The job of a museum floor manager includes working with volunteers, coordinating staff, assisting visitors to the museum as well as providing or organization educational information and guided tours ... The floor manager oversees the day-to-day operation of his or her area of the museum."
http://www.jobprofiles.org/artmuseum1.htm

see also
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Museum-Floor-Manager-l-Washin...

gets about 11 000+ g-hits

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@ codeswitch
yes, one of the reasons for which I posted this reply; in my link above there's also the following text : "In some museums and with some displays the floor manager may also be directly responsible for managing the security of the area ... Overseeing, assessing and supervising the security in the area of the museum they are responsible for".

Curators administer museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, nature centers, and historic sites. The museum director often is a curator. Curators direct the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections, including negotiating and authorizing the purchase, sale, exchange, or loan of collections. They are also responsible for authenticating, evaluating, and categorizing the specimens in a collection. Curators often oversee and help conduct the institution's research projects and related educational programs. Today, an increasing part of a curator's duties involves fundraising and promotion, which may include the writing and reviewing of grant proposals, journal articles, and publicity materials, as well as attendance at meetings, conventions, and civic events.

Most curators specialize in a particular field, such as botany, art, paleontology, or history. Those working in large institutions may be highly specialized. A large natural history museum, for example, would employ separate curators for its collections of birds, fishes, insects, and mammals. Some curators maintain their collections, others do research, and others perform administrative tasks. In small institutions with only one or a few curators, one curator may be responsible for a number of tasks, from maintaining collections to directing the affairs of the museum.


A museum curator plans, displays and catalogs collection items. Planning and overseeing tours, programs and workshops may also be part of a museum curator's duties. A museum director is often the head curator at a museum.

Large museums may employ several curators that each specialize in a certain field. Small museums may have just one museum curator that does many different tasks and works with collections in many different subject areas. A museum curator employed in a large museum may travel often to seek out items to add to the museum's collection, while a museum curator in a small museum does not usually travel as part of the job.

Besides education and knowledge of museum studies, a museum curator needs writing and business skills. Grant requests and other fund raising materials must sometimes be written. Museum curators also often manage staff. Computer knowledge is also required as a museum curator usually must work with a database. Knowledge of public relations and marketing is also helpful for a museum curator and designing exhibits that appeal to the public is a crucial skill for a museum curator to have.

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Note added at 43 mins (2010-03-07 08:42:49 GMT)
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Archivist may be used too.
archivists mainly handle records and documents that are retained because of their importance and potential value
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos065.htm

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Curator may be for a museum or for an insane person or for a minor. I think they put (regisseur) in order to determine which meaning is needed.
The curator is in charge of everything, while the archivist is in charge of documents only. I would just put Curator.

Different institutions have differing hierarchies and structures. I think this is a good compromise for your specific context, where inclusion is the most important element. The idea is to differentiate the artistic staff from the technical staff. The other answers I've seen seem either too specific - "register", or too general - administrator.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2010-03-07 11:36:06 GMT)
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I google search of:
museum registrar "collections manager"
will show that the two terms are most often synonymous. Registrar is more widely used, while collections manager is more easily understood by the general public.

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See especially:

<http://www.rcaam.org/members/salary/pds.html>


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http://www.rcaam.org/members/salary/pds.html