MS 303: Found in the Collection: Orphans, Old Loans and Abandoned 
Property (NEW)
Instructor: Lin Nelson-Mayson
Dates: February 4 through 29, 2008
Price: $425
Location:  www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Every museum has a few stray items. Some lost tags long ago. Others 
turn up as surprises during inventories. A few are all that remain 
from long-ago exhibits. While you'll want to keep some, others may be 
deteriorating. Even worse, some pose significant hazards for staff 
and the rest of the collection. All raise legal and professional 
questions. How do you deal with objects that have no records? Or 
loans from unidentified or deceased lenders? Found in the Collection 
addresses how to identify abandoned objects and old loans. It further 
covers the application of state laws and rules for identifying owners 
or establishing ownership    .

Course Outline
1.      Introduction
2.      Definitions and legislation
3.      Identification and process - Abandoned property and "Found in 
the Collection"
4.      Identification and process - Old Loans
5.      Systems to regulate future problems
6.      Conclusion

Logistics
Participants in Found in the Collection work through sections on 
their own. Instructor Lin Nelson-Mayson is available for scheduled 
email support. Materials and resources include online literature, 
slide lectures and dialog between students and online chats led by 
the instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants.

Found in the Collection runs six weeks. Please enroll at 
www.museumclasses.org and pay for the course at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. If you have trouble 
completing an on-line order, please contact Helen Alten at 
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Textbook:
The New Museum Registration Methods, 4th edition.  Edited by Rebecca 
A. Buck & Jean Allman Gilmore.  427 pages (American Association of 
Museums; 1998)  ISBN: 0-931201-31-4. Available through American 
Association of Museums. $55.00 (non-member cost) $40.00 (member cost)

The Instructor:
Lin Nelson-Mayson, with over 25 years of museum experience at small 
and large institutions, is currently the director of the Goldstein 
Museum of Design, part of the University of Minnesota's College of 
Design. Ms Nelson-Mayson's experience includes teaching museum 
studies and museology courses.  Her particular interest is the needs 
of small museums. While at the Columbia Museum of Art, she chaired 
South Carolina's newly-created Abandoned Cultural Property Committee. 
The Committee promoted the state's recently adopted abandoned 
cultural property and old loan legislation and reviewed applications 
made by museums for claims under the law. In Minnesota, Ms. 
Nelson-Mayson initiated a committee that worked with the Minnesota 
Legislature to ultimately adopt abandoned cultural property and old 
loan legislation for Minnesota. She lectures to museum professionals 
and students on the topic of abandoned cultural property and old loans.


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