Margaret Santiago
Margaret Santiago was an American museum registrar. Santiago, who worked at the National Museum of Natural History, was the first African-American to work as a registrar for a major scientific museum.Biography
Santiago was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1931.
Santiago began working at the Smithsonian in 1960 and started as a clerk typist. She was promoted to working as the assistant supervisor in accessions and specimen control at the National Museum of Natural History in 1963. By 1970, she was the supervisor of that unit. In 1977, Santiago became the first African American to work as a registrar for a major scientific museum. Santiago was a co-founder of the African American Museums Association. Santiago retired from the Smithsonian in 1991.
Santiago died on March 17, 2018.
