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Gonzaga University’s Jundt Art Museum hired Britta Keller Arendt as museum registrar and program coordinator.
Arendt has more than a decade of professional experience in museum registration, exhibitions and collections management, including expertise in various electronic cataloguing databases for museum collections.
She worked as registrar and collections specialist for the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., as collections manager at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, and as curator at The Museums at Lisle Station Park, Lisle, Illinois, and as collections assistant at the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Oak Park, Illinois.
Beginning in 2015, Arendt was the senior collection manager at the Chicago History Museum in Chicago where she managed a permanent collection of about 150,000 objects.
Arendt holds a master’s degree in public history and museum studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology and a minor in English literature from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
She is a member of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists, a grant reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and a member of the Collections Stewardship Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums.