MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: July 11 - August 5, 2005
Price: $350
The Northern States Conservation Center (http://www.collectioncare.org)
announces the up-dated course: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture at
www.museumclasses.org. This course concentrates on building systems and
furniture as they relate to storage and protection of the
collection. Environmental controls, insulation, floor coatings, and
predicting space requirements are covered. Then the course covers the
types of storage furniture you might choose for your new
facility. Commerically available furniture and home-made furniture are
discussed. This course provides the blueprint for how to approach
architects and engineers as well as redesigning your facility
yourself. Starting with the philosophy of storage, the course covers
construction requirements, security, fire and water prevention, types of
furniture, and how to plan for collections growth. A new unit details how
commercial museum quality storage cabinetry is constructed. Blueprints are
provided for high-quality, home-made cabinets.
The course format is self-paced through 5 sections. The instructor will be
available Monday, Wednesday and Friday by e-mail, and for course at
predetermined intervals throughout the course. Students will be working
individually and interact through forums and scheduled on-line chats.
Materials include web versions of reading materials and lecture notes.
Supporting resources include message forums, weekly online chats, email
support, projects, quizzes, and links to relevant websites.
The course will last for four weeks and cover all the details needed to
plan storage expansions or improvements. (It does not include
improvements such as mounts to individual artifacts.) This course will
include handouts, on-line literature, slide lectures, and
student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20
participants.
If you are interested in the course, please sign up at
www.museumclasses.org and pay for the course at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. If you have trouble with
either, please contact Helen Alten at [log in to unmask]
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