22. Accounting and storage of museum valuables is carried out by the custodians of the funds and expositions of the museum.

In museums that do not have fund department custodians, their duties and the responsibilities of exposition custodians are assigned by the director to the research staff of the departments.

The duties of the custodian are also assigned to the director of the traveling exhibition or another person accompanying the exhibits of the exhibition.

23. Curators are appointed and dismissed by the order of the director in agreement with the chief curator and heads of the relevant departments (if they are in the structure of the museum).

24. Persons with a higher (or secondary specialized) education, who have worked as a researcher for at least a year and have completed an internship in the museum in the section of conservation work for at least 3 months, may be appointed curators of museum collections.

25. Custodians directly or through the heads of the relevant departments (if funds are kept by departments) report to the chief custodian (head of funds).

26. The custodians of museum valuables made of precious metals and stones are approved by the higher authorities according to the subordination of the museum on the recommendation of the director.

27. Keepers are responsible in accordance with the procedure established by law for the museum valuables in their custody, for their correct accounting and safety from damage and theft.

28. When a custodian is dismissed or transferred to another job in this museum, the directorate is obliged to ensure the timely transfer of museum valuables in his custody to a new employee, and if this is not possible, to a specially created commission.

29. In accordance with official duties Guardians do the following:

a) keep a strict record of the museum valuables in their materially responsible storage;

b) store them in conditions that ensure safety from damage and theft.

30. For these purposes, the custodians are obliged:

a) carry out the acceptance of funds for materially responsible storage according to the relevant acts with a list of all accepted items and an indication of their state of preservation at the time of acceptance.

Acts of acceptance for materially responsible storage are approved by the director. One copy of the act against receipt in the registration book is issued to the custodian, the second goes to the accounting department (where there is no such department, to the main custodian or director), the third - to the case of this custodian, which is located at the main custodian;

b) keep records and periodically check the availability of museum items stored by them;

c) ensure their timely scientific inventory;

d) allocate items to places of storage in funds according to a certain system and compile topographic inventories, scientific and reference card indexes and books of the custodian;

e) take measures to ensure storage and exposition of museum equipment (racks, stands, showcases, cabinets, etc.) that meet the rules for storing museum valuables;

f) monitor the condition of museum equipment, as well as the condition of locks and seals on cabinets, display cases, etc., lock and seal them with your seal;

g) monitor the condition of the exhibition halls and storage facilities, lock and seal them upon completion of work in accordance with the internal regulations established in the museum, in the absence of round-the-clock security in these premises, monitor compliance with fire regulations.

Notes. 1. In case of emergency, the opening of a vault or showcase in the absence of the curator is carried out by a commission consisting of three museum employees with the obligatory presence of the chief curator (head of funds) or director, and in the absence of the director, his deputy. When the vault is opened, an act is necessarily drawn up, fixing the reasons and results of the opening.

2. The right to lock and seal the exposition in compliance with the established procedure for the transfer of exhibits may be entrusted to the duty researcher of the museum. The duty schedule is approved by the director or chief custodian (head of funds).

h) in case of detection of any shortcomings in the exhibition halls and storages or in the museum equipment, leading to a violation of the rules for storing museum items, immediately report this to the head of the department, the chief custodian (head of funds), the deputy director for the administrative and economic part and director;

i) control the admission of visitors to the vaults and monitor their strict observance of the established museum rules, keep a register of visitors to the vaults, and prevent unauthorized persons from entering the vaults who do not have the permission of the director or chief curator;

j) supervise the proper cleaning of the premises that meets museum requirements. Regularly conduct classes with museum attendants on the protection and cleaning of the premises entrusted to them;

k) conduct systematic monitoring of the state of preservation of museum objects and participate in restoration inspections;

l) keep journals on the conservation of museum objects and a preservation file, in which to record the results of their inspections by custodians and restorers. Each new entry must be accurately dated and signed by the custodian;

m) keep a book (or summary) of daily records of temperature and humidity conditions in storages and exhibition halls (twice a day, at the same hours - in the morning and in the evening), as well as draw up a monthly graph of temperature and humidity fluctuations;

n) immediately inform the head of the department, the chief curator (head of funds) and the director of all cases of damage, diseases of museum objects, deviations in temperature, humidity and light conditions from the established norms and take measures to eliminate them, as well as to carry out restoration and preventive measures events;

o) immediately notify the head of the department, the chief curator (head of funds) and the director of all cases of loss and theft of museum items;

p) take measures to immediately record all cases of loss, theft and damage of museum objects, accurately recording the circumstances under which these cases occurred. A photo of the stolen or damaged museum item is attached to the act, and in the absence of a photo, an exact extract from the inventory book;

c) twice a year to submit to the chief custodian (manager of funds) or to the accounting department a summary of the movement of funds in his custody.

31. The custodian has the right:

a) require the administration to create the conditions necessary for the proper storage of funds, guaranteeing them from damage and theft;

b) to seal or seal the storage places with their own seal or their seal. Removal of the seal or seal of the custodian by another person is prohibited;

c) suspend the actions of experts or restorers in case of a threat to the safety of objects.

32. In the event of a long absence of the custodian, a person replacing him is appointed, in agreement with the chief custodian, by order for the museum with the appropriate registration of the transfer of museum values.

33. In those museums where there are accounting departments (sector), head. accounting department:

a) ensures the safety and strict procedure for maintaining all accounting and storage documentation of the museum;

b) is responsible for the timely registration of all receipts of the museum;

c) controls the timely return of all items issued or accepted for temporary use;

d) participates in commissions for reconciliation of the availability of funds;

e) controls the safety and correct maintenance of records held by curators and restorers.

The duties of the accounting department do not include the direct storage of museum funds.

8. The chief custodian (or head of funds) of the museum manages the work of accounting, storage, conservation and restoration of museum valuables and controls its implementation directly or through the relevant heads of departments. He also controls the admission of persons to the repository of funds and ensures compliance with the established rules for the use of museum valuables, and maintains a key economy.

9. The chief curator (or head of funds) is appointed and dismissed in museums of union subordination by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, in museums of republican subordination - by the ministries of culture of the union and autonomous republics, in museums of the regional, regional, district, etc. subordination - by the relevant departments and departments of culture according to subordination. IN state museums other ministries and departments, the chief custodian (or head of funds) is appointed and dismissed by a higher authority.

10. Acceptance and delivery of cases upon appointment or dismissal of the chief curator (or head of funds) are carried out according to acts fixing the presence and safety of museum funds, the state of accounting and storage, the engineering and technical condition of the premises and equipment of storage facilities, exhibition halls and restoration workshops, the nature temperature, humidity and light conditions on the day of drawing up the act.

11. During vacations, illness or other periods of temporary absence of the main curator (or head of funds), his rights and obligations are assigned to another employee appointed by a special order for the museum.

12. The chief custodian (or head of funds) reports directly to the director of the museum and is, in his rights and duties, his deputy in the field of accounting and storage work.

13. All documents, correspondence, reports, accounting and storage and restoration plans, as well as documents directly related to the movement of museum funds (reception and issue, transfer from department to department, etc.) must be endorsed by the chief curator (head . funds) or subscribe to them.

14. Instructions and orders of the chief custodian (head of funds) in the field of accounting, storage and organization of restoration work are obligatory for all museum employees.

15. Appointments, dismissals and transfers of accounting, storage and restoration workers, as well as internal security and caretakers of the halls, should be made only in agreement with the chief custodian (head of funds).

16. The main custodian (manager of funds) is obliged to ensure:

A) correct accounting of all museum funds in full accordance with these Instructions;

B) taking measures to store museum valuables in conditions that guarantee them from damage and theft;

C) proper maintenance and storage of all documents of the accounting and storage order;

D) timely development of intra-museum instructions defining a strict procedure for accounting, storage, restoration and protection of museum valuables and the responsibility of each custodian and internal security employee for the entrusted area of ​​accounting and storage work;

E) control over the correct work of department heads, curators and other employees in the field of accounting, storage, restoration and protection of museum valuables, their packaging for transportation;

E) periodic commission checks of knowledge of the curators' knowledge of the instructions for accounting and storage of museum valuables.

17. In case of receipt of an order of the director that contradicts this Instruction, the chief custodian (manager of funds) must notify the director in writing about the incorrectness of the order given by him before carrying it out. When the director confirms the order in writing, the chief curator is obliged to immediately inform the Ministry of Culture of the USSR or the Ministry of Culture of the Union Republic according to the subordination of the museum (in state museums of other ministries and departments - to higher authorities).

18. Employees who have allowed the loss, theft or damage of museum valuables, as well as violation of fire rules and regulations, are subject to disciplinary, criminal liability and bear material liability in the manner prescribed by current legislation.

19. The director and chief custodian (head of funds) must immediately report all cases of theft, damage or disease of museum objects to the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, the Ministry of Culture of the Union, Autonomous Republics and local cultural bodies in accordance with subordination in oral, and then in written form, with a detailed statement of all the circumstances of the incident.

Cases of theft must be immediately reported to the investigating authorities in order to take urgent measures to search for the stolen items.

20. In all cases of damage or serious illness of museum objects, the museum is obliged to immediately draw up a defective act, in which it is precisely recorded the degree of damage or disease of the object, the cause and circumstances of the damage (a photograph of the damaged object is attached to the defective act). The museum is also obliged to take measures in accordance with the established procedure for the restoration and restoration of the object and the elimination of the cause of the disease. If an object is damaged, the museum must ensure the safety of all its, even the most insignificant, parts (particles of the paint layer of paintings, fragments of sculpture, porcelain, furniture parts, sewing fragments, scraps of paper, etc.) and transfer them to the restoration workshop simultaneously with the transfer of the object for restoration .

21. In all museums, careful control over the state of especially outstanding monuments of material and spiritual culture, natural history should be established. Individual files should be filed for these monuments, in which all the documentation related to the change in the state of preservation of the object and its restoration is concentrated. In the event of illness or damage to such a monument, a copy of the defective act, together with an explanatory note and a photograph of the damaged item, is immediately sent to the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the Ministry of Culture of the Union Republic in accordance with the subordination of the museum (for museums of other ministries, departments - to higher authorities).

Restoration of particularly outstanding museum valuables, except for the simplest conservation work, is allowed only with the permission of the USSR Ministry of Culture and with the conclusion of a commission composed of authoritative specialists, museum workers and restorers of the highest qualification.

Characteristics

Types of labor Management / Creativity / Control

Prof. orientation person - person / person - artistic image

Areas of activity Management / Science / Education / Culture

Spheres of work Man / Information / Art

Description

Working in a public or private museum is a socially responsible activity, as it is a place where our own history and the history of life are physically visible. The main curators are in all museums. The main work of the chief curator of the museum is work with funds, responsibility for the good fate and condition of all funds. He accepts all items entering the museum and draws up the appropriate acts of their acceptance. Then this item or document is entered into the inventory book, where they are given an inventory number, on the basis of which the item can be registered in the database. After this procedure is completed, the main curator of the museum sends the object to the appropriate fund. Museum funds usually contain dozens of times more materials than are presented in expositions. There are separate holdings for books, documents, photographs, commodities, weapons, and other sources. The chief curator of the museum is not an employee who performs only technical work and fills out paperwork. He must also, upon receipt of new items, determine their value and belonging. The chief curator of the museum directs the work of the fund committee, which decides on new museum acquisitions, on the organization of expositions and on the replenishment of funds.

Must know

To work as the main custodian, a wide knowledge from different areas of life will be useful. In addition, the chief curator must be aware of changing circumstances and literary novelties. Based on the specifics of the museum, you should thoroughly know a particular area. The main skills and knowledge of the main curator of the museum cover the general principles and methods of preserving cultural property, the history of culture, professional terminology, the study and description of the state of individual objects and collections, the identification of risks and dangers, as well as the planning of resources necessary for work.

Professionally important qualities

  • sociability;
  • ability to make decisions;
  • sense of responsibility;
  • subsequence;
  • ability to endure routine and stressful work;
  • logical thinking;
  • willingness to cooperate;
  • accuracy;
  • Creative skills;
  • visual memory.

Medical contraindications

  • nervous and mental disorders;
  • violations of diction;
  • diseases of the musculoskeletal system.

Ways to get a profession

Higher professional education.

Related professions

Guide-interpreter, museologist.

Under custodian business is understood as a systematic presentation of the basic concepts that involve the creation of material and legal conditions under which the preservation of a museum object and a museum collection is ensured.

Systematic exposition is a common feature of curatorship, thanks to which it belongs to the class of sciences, and without which it could not be called a science.

The basic concepts of guardianship are based on ideas about being and consciousness, culture and civilization, man and society, values, duties and rights, the people and the individual, the state, society and religious organizations, which acquire a significant and, therefore, suggesting a centripetal orientation of the actions of members of society. , character only in a certain order of subordination and hierarchical construction of terms.

The creation of material conditions presupposes systematized, tested in practice and fixed by the relevant regulatory documents, the conditions for storing museum objects in the state in which they were identified, and involving the provision of this state within the normatively allotted time.

The creation of legal conditions involves the exclusion of museum objects from economic circulation and their inclusion in a special circulation of objects of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, while the problem of alienation of property is solved by a special procedure for universal succession established by the Government Russian Federation.

The concept of museum objects and museum collections is based on a theoretically substantiated idea of ​​cultural value, the quality or special features of which make it necessary for society to preserve, study and public presentation, and, therefore, they are based on the solution of issues. related not only to the theory of culture in philosophy and cultural studies, the theory of sets in mathematics, the theory of interactions in cybernetics and sociology, but also to the theories of a number of applied sciences that describe the flow of information interactions.

Custodianship takes its own place in the environment of socio-philosophical, cultural, sociological, political science, historical and other social disciplines, allowing it to be singled out as a special area of ​​cultural studies./

The keeper

Curator of items of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation (custodian) is a structural unit of any museum.

In the position of custodian, we see the paradox of modernity, which requires resolution.

On the one hand, in the legal documents we find a clear description of the custodian's duties /Order of the USSR Ministry of Culture dated July 17, 1985 N 290 "On Approval of the Instructions for Accounting and Storage of Museum Treasures located in State Museums of the USSR"/.

On the other hand, in the labor legislation there is no status of the keeper, as a specific profession that ensures the storage of a unique group of values ​​​​of the peoples inhabiting the Russian Federation - Items of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation .

The profession of a custodian of museum objects is not included in the Unified Tariff and Qualification Reference Book of Works and Professions of Workers (ETKS).

The concept of the curator's profession is not included in the current list of Model job descriptions for museum employees. The provisions of this list and other normative and administrative documents implicitly assign the responsibility for the storage of museum objects to a researcher at the Museum Funds Department.

But in fact, museum values ​​remain without proper personal responsibility. In accordance with Article 239 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, liability is excluded in the following cases: “damage occurs due to force majeure circumstances, normal economic risk, extreme necessity or necessary defense, or the employer’s failure to fulfill the obligation to ensure proper conditions for storing property entrusted to the employee,” it can be argued , which is a significant part national treasure actually remains unoccupied.

In the keeper, we see a unique profession of our time, the roots of which go back to the dense past, and the future is seen as more than worthy. The best features of a scientist and a citizen are embodied in the curator of the items of the Museum Fund of Russia. This profession requires scientific work. The modern custodian is always a scientific worker. But at the same time, it implies full liability, which excludes the labor legislation of the Russian Federation. IN The list of works, during the performance of which full collective (team) liability for the shortage of property entrusted to employees can be introduced[Appendix N 3 to the Decree of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation of December 31, 2002 N 85] there is no profession of a custodian of museum objects, therefore, written agreements on full liability cannot be concluded with them.

Realizing the urgent need to recognize the profession of the curator of objects of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, guided by the regulation of the Charter of the Research Institute for Standardization of Museum Activities provide assistance and legal assistance to creative workers.

By decision of the Board, it was decided to create NATIONAL NOMENCLATURE OF SPECIALISTS OF MUSEUMS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

The purpose of creating the nomenclature is to form a professional community artists united by common tasks, having similar problems and included in a single technological cycle. The task of the nomenclature is to determine the key rights and obligations of the Custodians, the limits of responsibility and the level of payment for the work performed. Based on the complexity of museum accounting and storage operations, a huge physical and intellectual load. Based on the productive nature of the work of the keepers, the main creators added value of cultural property, we believe that the base salary of a curator should fluctuate within 40 thousand rubles a month, and depend not on the category of the museum or its location in a large city or rural area, but solely on the number and complexity of items in storage.

The name of the registry was chosen by us not by chance. The nomenclature is a specialized list of positions, the appointment to which requires approval by a representative of the owner of the organization (institution, department, division, institute, etc.). in accordance with paragraph 9. The main curator (or head of funds) is appointed and dismissed in museums of union subordination by the USSR Ministry of Culture, in museums of republican subordination - by the ministries of culture of the union and autonomous republics, in museums of the regional, regional, district, etc. subordination - by the relevant departments and departments of culture according to subordination. In state museums of other ministries and departments, the chief curator (or head of funds) is appointed and dismissed by a higher authority. Similar to item 23. Curators are appointed and dismissed by the order of the director in agreement with the chief curator and heads of the relevant departments (if they are present in the museum structure). In addition, paragraph 32. In the event of a long absence of the custodian, a person replacing him is appointed, in agreement with the chief custodian, by order of the museum with the appropriate registration of the transfer of museum values. these are the requirements of the main regulatory and administrative document of the Order of the USSR Ministry of Culture of July 17, 1985 N 290 “On Approval of the Instruction for Accounting and Storage of Museum Treasures located in State Museums of the USSR”. We simply state this fact in a formal document. We do not affirm, but designate what has already taken place and show that the nomenclature is a reality.

Registration in the nomenclature lists is voluntary. In total, we offer three categories of specialists: Chief Curator of the Museum, Custodian of the items of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, Specialist in accounting and storage of museum items and museum collections. The fields for registration marked in red font are mandatory. Windows marked in green are optional. All those registered in the database will be sent Personal Certificates of the National Nomenclature of Museum Specialists of the Russian Federation, which will be the first document that means that you have a unique profession of a keeper of museum objects.

Visitors to the site will only have access to your last name, first name, patronymic and e-mail specified by you. The rest of the information about you will be confidential.

Museum curators all over the country - unite!

3.1. Accounting and storage of museum items and museum collections is carried out by the custodians of funds (hereinafter referred to as the responsible custodians), appointed and dismissed by the order of the director in agreement with the chief custodian and the head of the relevant custodial department, if such departments are provided for in the structure of the museum.

3.2. The responsible custodian of museum items made of precious metals and precious stones is appointed to the position by order of the museum director in agreement with the founder.

3.3. The duties of the responsible custodian of museum objects, by order of the museum director, are also assigned to the custodian (custodians) of the exposition and exhibitions, including foreign ones.

3.4. The responsible custodian reports to the chief custodian directly or through the head of the relevant custodial department.

3.5. The responsible custodian may be a museum researcher with a higher education, who has worked as a museum researcher for at least a year, and who has completed an internship at the museum in the section of accounting and storage work for at least three months.

3.6. The responsible custodian, in accordance with the procedure established by law, is personally responsible for the accounting and safety of museum objects and museum collections accepted by him for safekeeping, performs his functions in accordance with the norms and requirements of the Rules, internal museum instructions and official duties approved by the director of the museum.

3.7. The transfer of museum items and museum collections when changing the responsible custodian is carried out in the presence of a commission approved by the order of the museum director, and is drawn up by an act with an attached list of accepted items, verified with accounting documents, a list of items not found during the reception.

3.8. In extreme situations (unexpected dismissal, prolonged illness, etc.), the collections assigned to the responsible custodian are temporarily transferred for safekeeping to another custodian, the head of the custodian department or the main custodian on the basis of the order of the museum director, indicating the procedure and terms of transfer.

After the appointment of a new responsible curator, these collections are transferred to him in the presence of the commission on the basis of a new order of the museum director.

3.9. The responsible custodian must:

To accept museum objects and museum collections according to the acts of acceptance for safekeeping, to register them in inventory books in a timely manner, to organize storage in accordance with the requirements of the Rules, to compile topographic inventories for all storage places and the necessary scientific reference card indexes, to carry out scheduled and operational checks availability;

Monitor the movement of museum objects with an annual submission to the department of accounting for information on issued and accepted museum objects, the condition of storage equipment and storage modes, keep records of temperature and humidity conditions, take appropriate measures to stabilize it, monitor the systematic sanitary cleaning of storage and working premises in accordance with the museum rules;

Report immediately (in writing or orally) to the head of the storage department, the chief custodian of all cases of detection of violations of storage conditions in storage facilities, exposition and exhibition halls (opening of storage and exposition equipment, damage to locks, seals or seals, etc., deviations from the established norms temperature, humidity and other conditions), loss, damage or destruction of museum items;

Immediately register all cases of violation of storage conditions, loss, damage or destruction of museum items with photographic fixation and a detailed statement of the reasons and circumstances of the facts revealed;

Participate in the work of commissions for checking the availability of museum objects and collections, restoration and preventive examinations, in the work of acquisition, in the work of commissions that check the accounting and storage activities of the museum.

3.10. The responsible custodian has the right:

Demand from the chief custodian, head of the department to create conditions for ensuring the accounting and storage of museum objects and museum collections entrusted to him in accordance with the Rules;

Be a member or participate in the work of the scientific and restoration councils, the expert fund-purchasing commission of the museum;

Provide opinions on the historical, cultural, artistic and scientific significance of cultural property submitted for consideration by the expert fund-purchasing commission of the museum, the expediency of their acquisition, procurement and insurance assessments, on the attribution of museum objects to the main, auxiliary and raw materials, on the allocation of museum objects in exchange fund not subject to export, transportation, etc.;

Undertake internships and training in order to improve qualifications in specialized disciplines corresponding to the position held.