Marianne Aselmeier
Marianne has been working at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim for 25 years and established the role of registrar within the institution. In this position she overseas all incoming / outgoing loan logistics and develops forms and contracts for the transfer of information, and manages the adaptation of databases to meet the specific requirements of special exhibitions. She has been training interns for several years and serves as a lecturer in the “Qualification Programme for Registrars” at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. Since 2023, she has served on the board of Registrars Germany, overseeing finances and membership administration.
Maria Espinosa
Maria has been working for the Bavarian State Painting Collections for almost 10 years, contributing her expertise to the Museum Brandhorst as well as the Alte and Neue Pinakothek. With more than fifteen years of professional experience as a registrar, she is responsible for managing loans from the collections, cataloguing new acquisitions at the Museum Brandhorst, and coordinating temporary exhibitions. She is specialized in touring exhibitions and is actively engaged in promoting more sustainable approaches within registrar practices.
Robert Hintz
Robert is working as registrar at the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum since 2019 and he is responsible for managing loans from the collections and for temporary exhibitions. He has served as deputy chair of Registrars Germany for three years now. Robert holds a degree in archaeology, is also responsible for coordinating projects about sustainability in the museum as Sustainability Manager and is responsible as Staff Unit for coordinating the New Setup of Vieweghaus (the main building of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum).
Reinhard Rasch
Reinhard is the Head Registrar at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne. He has held this position for 18 years and established the registrar’s office at the museum. As registrar for the museum (which houses a collection of Old Masters from the Middle Ages to the Impressionist period), he is responsible for both: incoming and outgoing loans. All aspects of the loan process are therefore coordinated by him at the museum. Reinhard holds a degree in art history and is convinced that the role of registrar can only function effectively through strong networking, nationally and internationally.
Nicole Schmidt
Nicole holds a degree in museum studies with over 20 years of experience. She has a Senior Registrar position in the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in Berlin. A key focus of her work is establishing standards to optimise museum workflows, such as driving the development of the “European Facility Report”. Since 2015, she has served as a chair of Registrars Germany. She is also a co-founder and lecturer for the highly regarded “Qualification Programme for Registrars”, offered in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. Nicole is a passionate advocate for the vital role of registrars in museums and the value of a collaborative professional network.
Volker Thiel
Volker has been shaping the collections and exhibition work of the Foundation “Haus der Geschichte” since 1994. He currently serves as Head Registrar, overseeing the institution’s sites in Bonn, Berlin, and Leipzig. His professional path reflects a deep commitment to preserving cultural heritage paired with strategic vision. He contributed to the development of the museum’s first permanent exhibition in Bonn and played a significant role in the creation of the new exhibition which opened in 2025. Volker leads the development of long-term storage strategies, is closely involved in planning a future centralized collections facility, and advances the digital infrastructure for collections and exhibition management. As co-founder and former chair of Registrars Germany, he has helped strengthen the registrar profession (within Germany and beyond).
Barbara Weber
Barbara is collection coordinator at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin where she is responsible for moving the collection to a new central fine art storage of Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Barbara worked as a Registrar at Museums in Germany and Switzerland.
As Head of Exhibitons at Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland, she aquired profound experience in dealing with the challenges of museums facilities and site specific architectural interventions by contemporary artists. She is currently involved in defining standards for long term storage of contemporary multipart objects and their requirements towards preemptive measurements as well as re-recording the works with the museums data base.
