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MS 211 Preservation Environments:
The museum's brick exterior wall is crumbling. The powder
coated metal storage shelves have active rust under the
foam padding. Objects in fur storage are covered in mold.
It is raining in the exhibit hall. This is the damage that
occurs to museum buildings or collection when staff do not
understand preservation environments. Preservation
Environments is essential knowledge for any collecting
institution. Everyone should understand how humidity and
temperature are controlled by a building and its mechanical
system. For museum staff considering a new building - and
any institution planning to expand or rebuild an existing
one - Preservation Environments provide important
information for calculating whether the proposed
improvements will actually improve the environmental
control of your protective enclosure. Participants learn
the advantages and disadvantages of numerous methods of
temperature and humidity control. Preservation Environments
does not try to turn museum professionals into engineers.
Rather, it arms them with the knowledge they need to work
with engineers and maintenance professionals. And helps
explain why damaged occurred and how to keep it from
happening again.

Course Outline:
1 Introduction
2 Climate Control Basics
3 Monitoring and Psychrometrics
4 Water - The Enemy
5 Preservation Today and Tomorrow
6 Conclusion

Logistics: Participants in Preservation Environments work
at their own pace through six sections and interact through
online chats. Instructor Ernest Conrad is available at
scheduled times for email support. Preservation
Environments includes online literature, slide lectures and
student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited
to 20 participants.

Preservation Environments 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
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Student Comments for MS211: Preservation Environments:
Mr. Conrad did a superb job?the information from the course
has helped me professionally, especially in describing the
impact of relative humidity on objects and artifacts and
paper.

I thought the lectures along with the powerpoint slides
were great.

This course helped me to understand quite a bit more as far
as the psychometric and maximum room RH without
condensation charts. I already had a psychometric chart but
made little use of it, since no one had explained how to
use it. I also was very interested to hear of digital
monitoring systems. This course exceeded my expectations.

The instructor was very knowledgeable, approachable (with
probably rather silly questions) and gave straight forward
answers to inquiries.

The Instructor:
Ernest A. Conrad's greatest contribution to the
preservation field was the development of environmental
guidelines for engineers who work on museums, libraries and
archives. For over 20 years, Mr. Conrad has focused on
environmental issues. He is president of Landmark
Facilities Group, Inc., an engineering firm specializing in
environmental systems for museums, libraries, archives and
historic facilities. A licensed mechanical engineer in
several states, Mr. Conrad holds a bachelor's degree in
civil engineering and a master's in environmental
engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) publishes
standards in the areas of HVAC and refrigeration. Mr.
Conrad recently co-authored the ASHRAE Applications
Handbook "Chapter 20: Museums, Libraries and Archives." For
the first time, there are guidelines specific to our needs
in the engineering literature. Mr. Conrad has studied
environments and designed special climate control systems
throughout the United States for clients as well-known as
the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, The Frick
Collection, Getty Conservation Institute, The Pierpont
Morgan Library, National Trust for Historic Preservation,
and National Park Service. He has a special interest in
house museums and how climate affects structures and
collections housed within those structures.

Helen Alten
Director
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
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