Jacqueline Arase
Museum Collections Specialist at Freelance

About

Experienced museum registrar and collections professional with over 20 years of service across museums, archives, and private collections. Demonstrated success managing complex exhibitions, coordinating loans, and maintaining large-scale collections databases. Brings additional nonprofit database and systems expertise from recent development leadership roles.

CORE SKILLS

• Collections Management & Registration

• Loan Documentation & Courier Oversight

• Works on Paper: Condition reporting, handling, housing, and storage

• Digitization & Imaging: DSLR cameras, flatbed/film scanners, Adobe Photoshop, TIFF/PDF creation, OCR

• Metadata & Digital Asset Management: Metadata standards, image file formats, digital object handling

• Databases: TMS, EmbARK, ZIMS, Argus, IDEA ALM, DonorPerfect, Salesforce

• Art Handling & Preventive Conservation

• Exhibition Planning & Object Installation

• Archival & Museum Best Practices: Preservation, security, condition reporting

• Project Management & Workflow Development: Training, documentation, policy creation

• Research & Reference Services: Donor and provenance research, bibliographic instruction, access facilitation

• Interdepartmental & External Coordination