MS204: Materials for Storage and Display
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $495
Dates: May 7 to Jun 1, 2012
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
One of the great benefits of the 21st century is the abundance of
materials for storing and displaying collections. Materials for Storage
and Display covers this vast array in detail. Lectures and handouts
separate materials by properties: rigid, padding, barrier and
attachments. Slide shows illustrate the use of each. The course
emphasizes acid-free materials and how to retrofit less appropriate
materials. Materials for Storage and Display keeps current with the
latest materials available for preservation. Using material testing as a
decision making tool is covered. Participants receive notebooks with
samples of all of the materials discussed.
Logistics:
Participants in Materials for Storage and Display work at their own pace
through eight sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at scheduled
times during the course for email support. Students work individually
and interact through forums and scheduled online chats. Materials
include PowerPoint lectures, readings and lecture notes, as well as
message forums, projects, quizzes, and links to relevant web sites. The
course is limited to 20 participants.
Materials for Storage and Display lasts 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]
The Instructor:
Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center and
its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been involved
in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at the
Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the
University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has
a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their
deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker,
maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures
throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental
in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small
Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and
IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs,
and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has
published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological
glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological
Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in
Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002),
preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small
museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection
Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering
museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in
Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator,
and staff trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and
tribal museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska.
Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a
conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.
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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org
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