Sixteenth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society

Abstract

The idea for the Registration, Collections Management, and Documentation Department (RCMDD) was born in 2006. The department began in January 2007 as a training project for Egyptian staff, by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), with a grant from the United States Agency for international Development (USAID). The actual training project began in 2007, with three trainers and four trainees. The department currently has six registrars. The RCMDD is considered the first centralized system for the care, maintenance, and documentation of the collections of a museum in Egypt. It is responsible for overseeing all the collections of the Egyptian Museum in both paper and digital format. This paper will discuss the history of the department, in addition to its current role in the Museum, and also the software used in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo before and now.