Northern States Conservation Center announces a new online course for
the start of 2009:
MS 242: Museum Microclimates
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
Dates: January 5 through 30, 2009
Price: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description
A microclimate is the environment immediately surrounding an
artifact. Microclimates designed for optimum storage, display, or
treatment conditions can be created and maintained in showcases,
storage cabinets, rooms, or plastic bags. This course covers the
basics of creating and maintaining microclimates, including
discussions of suitable enclosures and appropriate means of
controlling humidity, temperature, pollution, and oxygen. Learn what
constitutes a microclimate, how to use silica gel and other
environmental control materials, how to reduce internally generated
pollutants, and techniques for monitoring the microclimate you have created.
Course Outline
1. Introduction to Microclimates and History of Microclimates
2. Components of a Microclimate
3. Microclimate Enclosures
4. Passive Environmental Controls
5. Active Environmental Controls, Pollution, Case Leakage
6. Monitoring a Microclimate
Logistics
Participants in Museum Microclimates work through sections on their
own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide
lectures and dialog between students and the instructor through online forums.
Museum Microclimates runs four weeks. To reserve a spot in the
course, please pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. If
you have trouble, please contact Helen Alten at
[log in to unmask] or Eric Swanson at [log in to unmask] .
The Instructor
Jerry Shiner has been providing consultant services for environmental
control of museum display and storage applications for almost twenty
years. Mr. Shiner has extensive expertise in both active and passive
methods of mitigating and controlling humidity, temperature,
pollution, and oxygen levels for display and storage enclosures. His
experience includes working with architects, engineers, and
conservators to design both local and central systems for large
museums. As founder of Keepsafe Microclimate Systems he has provided
hundreds of active and passive solutions for low oxygen treatment and
storage (anoxia), and showcase humidity and temperature control. Mr.
Shiner is author of numerous articles on microclimate storage and
display. His clients include museums in the US and Europe. When not
working on microclimates, Mr. Shiner can bang out a passable version
of "Lady of Spain" on the accordion.
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