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Registration deadline May 15th.


DON'T SWEAT THE BIG STUFF: TRAINING FOR THE RIGGING & MOVING OF FINE ARTS AND ARTIFACTS

 Instructors: Roger Machin & Dean Langworthy
 Date: June 23-27, 2003
 NEH Scholarships May Be Available

The goal of this course is to train all participants how to safely plan and
execute moves of heavy and/or fragile museum artifatcs weighing up to 5000 lbs.  The techniques taught in the course will be based on the utilization of equipment that is easily available to the museum and conservation professional.  Also covered will be the techniques and equipment used only by a professional rigger, providing students with the knowledge to work successfully with professional riggers.

The course will include lectures and hands-on experience covering:
 1. A review of what "rigging" means for musems and conservators in private practice, along with  a brief history of rigging techniques and
technologies, followed by demonstrations of rigging equipment.
 2. Organizing a rigging crew and rigging boxes.
 3.Working with crates, pallets, and dunnage while protecting floors, surrounding structures, and lawn/landscape.
 4. Forklift training.
 5. Common rigging problems such as locating load centers, handling unbalanced and long loads, and supporting weak sections of an artifact.
 6. Specifying and ordering cranes.

 Enrollment Limit:12
 Course Fee: $1,315 (including accommodations)
 Registration Deadline: May 15, 2003

To register, contact:
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies
203 E. Seminary Street
P.O. Box 66
Mt. Carroll, IL  61053

phone: 815-244-1173
fax: 815-244-1619
e-mail: [log in to unmask] 
webpage: http://www.campbellcenter.org 

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