IRENE TAURINS is Director of Registration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she has worked since 1978. She oversees the documentation and movement of works of art into, out of, and within the Museum, physically and legally. She has organized and circulated many special exhibitions. Irene was a Founding Director of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS) and served as Corresponding Secretary for three years. She wrote the chapter on “Shipping” for The New Museum Registration Methods, in 1998, and again for MRM5 in 2010 and for MRM6 in 2020. She has been a courier on many occasions, including an “around the world” courier trip from Philadelphia to Toronto to Taipei to Paris and back to Philadelphia in one week. Prior to joining the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Irene was the Registrar/Administrator at Sotheby’s, New York, where she was instrumental in introducing and implementing new forms and procedures for inventory control of works of art. When she is not registering, she enjoys travel and warm water snorkeling.