Collections Care Training Program
January 22 - February 13, 1998
Sponsored by:
Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums
Co-sponsored by:
University of Delaware Museum Studies Program and
Art Conservation Department
Tuition: $1,000.
Room: approximately $700.
Designed for the small and mid-sized museum staff, the Collections Care
Training Program is an intensive course taught by nationally recognized
museum and conservation professionals. The program is held over a 20 day
period on the campus of the University of Delaware. Through lectures,
demonstrations, and hands-on experiences, students will learn about the
nature of materials, agents of deterioration, environmental monitoring,
collections management, collections storage, and rudimentary treatment of all
kinds of museum objects.
Students receive training by thirty specialists, books and instructor
hand-outs, and a box of tools. The learn how to build an inexpensive
micro-environment storage space, assemble shelves, make padded baskets, and
monitor museum environments.
Additionally, participants receive instruction on specific types of
collections and their special needs, i.e., ceramics, glass, paintings,
paper, photographs, furniture, metals, leathers, plastics.
This program does not train participants to initiate repair or cleaning
procedures that irreversibly alter the structural stability or appearance of
an historic artifact. The program supports the conviction that
accountability for conservation treatments is shared between, who upholds the
Code of Ethics of the AAM, and the conservator who upholds the Code of Ethics
and Standards for Practice of the AIC.
The program is funded in part by a grant from The National Endowment for the
Humanities.
For more information and application materials contact:
Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums
P.O. Box 817
Newark, DE 19715-0817
phone: 302-731-1424
fax: 302-731-1432
Frank McKelvey
Program Director
Collections Care Training Program
phone: 302-658-0771
fax: 302-658-4228
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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