The 12th European Congress of Registrars took place on the revised dates of the 3 – 5 November 2022 at the Strasbourg Convention + Exhibition Centre.
The organization of ERC2022 benefits from the support of the city of Strasbourg and the Grand Est Region, as part of the Culture fund of the 2021-2023 Strasbourg European Capital Three-Year Contract.
22 years after the Second European Conference of Registrar held in Paris in November 2000, it is an anniversary that we celebrated together. This ERC allowed us to broaden the scope of our reflections on the professional challenges that we have to manage and for which we develop specific professional skills.
Our resilient capacity and our adaptation will have to be questioned and analyzed from a socio-professional point of view and through the working links that we have been able to maintain. The new normal, which is imposed on us, will have to be built on the memories of our old existences and link the global and the local.
The FUTURE OF TOMORROW could not exist without taking action on sustainable development and being involved in the eco-responsibility of our industry. These responsibilities for the registrars and the heritage professionals with whom they work.
Those involved in presentation and conservation have to respond by creating agencies, specifics training in universities to train new generations of collection and exhibition managers.
Moreover, Registrars do not only work in museums or heritage institutions. They are present in art galleries, private foundations, and universities so as better meet the needs and requirements of a changing international scene.
Together, through the programming of this ERC, networking and opportunities to explore the city that we propose to you, analyze these challenges in the present and those, which wait for us!

from the conference official website

Opening Plenary
Welcome from Ludovic Chauwin, AFROA, Robert Graham, Gallagher and Jean-Michel Floret, LP Art President

ERG Panel
Veronique de Alzua, Mudam, Cristina Mulinas, IVAM, Céline Rince-Vaslin, AFROA, Rebecca Romere, Associazione Italiana Registrar di Opere d’Arte, Szófia Molnar, Hungarian Association of Registrar, Tiril Krabbesund, Nordic Group and Eloise Stewart, UKRG

For a Museum that does good: Museotherapy
Nathalie Bondil, Institut du monde arabe

Heritage management and digital practices: current challenges of documentation
Francoise Dalex, Musee de Louvre

Condition state in cultural property conservation: semantic and conceptual clarifications
Grazia Nicosia, Musee de Louvre

EODEM: The Exhibition Object Data Exchange Model
Angela Kipp, CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group

Why and how to share archaeological data?
Xavier Rodier, Tours University

Courier Training – Scenario Workshop (limited to 20 places, booking in advance required)
Kathy Richmond, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh, Desirée Blomberg, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Wendela Brouwer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The implementation of a sustainable development policy within public institutions: the case of the Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Sandrine Beaujard-Vallet, Centre George Pompidou

The environmental role of the crate in the transportation of works of art
Stephane Pompidou, University of Bordeaux

Sustainability and Exhibitions, the experience at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Sonia Nuñez, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Bilbao

Introducing the process and result of detailed Information of CO2 emission of a museum as a whole and the registrar in particular
Caren Jones, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

Logistics of works of art: where are the options to minimize our environmental impact?
Valérie Bonard, CHENUE/LPArt

AFROA’s actions to raise awareness of risk management for collections
Anne-Laure Rameau, AFROA & Anaïs Desneaux, AFROA

GASP – Assistance group in the event of Heritage / Emergency, a outside helper to museum for risk management
Anthony Zurawski, La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, Caenw

Emergency Plan for the collections of the Museion in Bolzano, Italy
Francesca Peyron, Mazzini Lab Società Benefit, Rome & Cristina Ferretti, Museion, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bolzano

Cyber Attacks! The risks and lessons learnt
Jen Kaines, Royal Armouries, Leeds, United Kingdom & Katie Robson, Royal Armouries, Leeds, United Kingdom

Tips & Tricks for Sustainable Workloads (limited to 20 places, booking in advance required)
Joanne Smith

Registrars and sustainability: report of the AFROA’s symposiums in 2019 and 2020
Melanie Rivault, Etablissement public des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie & Marie Fekar, Archives nationales

Developing eco-responsible and biobased prototype for preservation of museum collections
Yousra Zerarka, Institute of UniLaSalle Rouen, Biro Caroline, Réunion des musées métropolitains of Rouen, Gattin Richard, Institute of UniLaSalle Rouen and Shehzad Aamir, Institute of UniLaSalle Rouen

Reopening the KMSKA! Bringing home the collection in a sustainable way
Fleur van Paassen, KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), Antwerp & Lisa van Gerven, KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp), Antwerp

The internationalisation and globalization of museums through the circulation of their objects, the example of Le Louvre
Sebastien Jacquot, University of Paris-Sorbonne & Anne Hertzog, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Two women and a baby – large sculpture moves
Jacqui Austin, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh & Lena Pohlmann, Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tubingen, Germany

Challenges of opening a new museum in Hong Kong
Bernadette Lai, M+, Hong Kong & Joyce Li, M+, Hong Kong

Evaluating risks, monitoring and analyzing data of art in transit, Part 1 (limited to 20 places, booking in advance required)
Cecilia Winter, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles & Vincent Beltran, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles

The two key words for curating university collections : pragmatism and collaboration
Sebastian Soubiran, Strasbourg University, Jardin des sciences, Strasbourg & Samuel Cordier, Zoological Museum, Strasbourg

University collections study centres: The impact of use on collections care
Lizzie O’Neill, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow

Vesalius – a new university museum for Leuven
Annelies Vogels, KU Leuven, Leuven

How to define a European framework of reference for training?
Helene Vassal, Institut National du Patrimoine

Restricted Collections, Sector Standards, and Collaborative Insights: Registrar Practice from the Perspective of a PhD Researcher
Stuart Bowes, University of Leeds and Royal Armouries, Leeds

The Framework, Practices and Training of Museum Collections Management in Taiwan
Pang Yen Cheng, National Palace Museum, Taipei

Sustainable Strategies for Future Proofing the Workforce I – A Case Study of over 10 years of a Strategic Partnership. Part 1
Jen Kaines, Royal Armouries, Leeds & Abigail Harrison, University of Leeds & Yvonne Hardman, Leeds Museums and Galleries & Laura Bell, Royal Armouries, Leeds

How an estimate is built?
Sylvie Michel, LPArt, Paris, Vanessa Vierkens, Kunsttrans Spedition GmbH, Austria, Patrick LaQuagila, Masterpiece International, USA & Ben Adams, Constantine, UK

Evaluating risks, monitoring and analyzing data of art in transit, Part 2
Cecilia Winter, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles & Vincent Beltran, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles

The virtual courier: New best practices in a post-pandemic world
Cayetana Castillo, Art Institute of Chicago & Matthew Norris, Art Institute of Chicago/ School of the Art Institute

Digital Couriers: What Worked, What Went Wrong and Ideas for the Future
Sabina Schumpf, Basel

Museum’s Registrars and Couriers at the post-Covid era: How do we go forward?
Isabel Bennasar Cabrera, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Courier: born to be there live
Valentina Brambilla, Museo Egizio, Turin & Roberta Accordino

The Rise of the Really (really) Remote Freelance Registrar
Karen Jakubec, Malmö & Lucy Findley, London

On the return of cultural objects: a long-term renewable partnership around a contested object in the V&A collection
Ana Muñoz, Victoria & Albert Museum, London & Dr Jaques Schuhmacher, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

The myth about the perfect Museum Climate
Thor Nørmark-Larsen, Statens Museum for Kunst / National Gallery of Denmark

We Don’t Talk about Fight Club: Securing the Future of Art Movement
Alyson Rolington, Tate Gallery, London & Kate Parsons

Towards a general transport quotation scheme?
Thor Nørmark-Larsen, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark & Wendela Brouwer, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Center for study and conservation / Museum Storage Facilities, the example of the Strasbourg Museums
Ludovic Chauwin, Musees de Strasbourg

Changing Spaces: Visible Storage through the WAG-Qaumajuq Vault
Nicole Fletcher, WAG-Qaumajuq, Winnipeg

Beyond Building ONE – The Future of Collecting and Storage at the Science Museum Group
Amy Brown, Science Museum Group, London

Renewing managing collections : The case of the Louvre Museum conservation centre
Raphaëlle Baume, Louvre Conservation Center in Liévin & Marie-Lys Marguerite, Louvre Conservation Center in Liévin

Sustainable Strategies for Future Proofing the Workforce II – ‘The New Normal’ Delivering Registrar Training in Partnership through Covid and Beyond. Part 2
Katie Robson, Royal Armouries, Leeds & Sarah Murray, Leeds Museums and Galleries & Jill McKnight, Royal Armouries, Leeds

Effective Registration for Co-curation
Joanne Smith, FREELANCE, London & Samantha Jenkins, People’s History Museum , Manchester

Share and/or Protect
Desirée Blomberg, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

CMS implementation and bilingual challenges, the case of the Royal Commission for AlUla
Marie-Astrid Martin, Royal Commission for AlUla

Storing European Past & Collecting European Future
Vladimir Čajkovac, House of European History, Brussels & Rocio del Casar Ximénez, House of European History, Brussels

Plenary Conclusion
Ludovic Chauwin, Musees de Strasbourg