Don't Sweat the Big Stuff: 
Training for the Rigging & Moving of Fine Arts and Artifacts

Instructors: Roger Machin & Dean Langworthy 
Date: July 26 - 30, 2004 
NEH Scholarships Available

The goal of this course is to train all participants how to safely plan and
execute moves of heavy and/or fragile museum artifacts weighing up to 
5000 lbs. The techniques taught in the course will be based on the 
utilization of equipment that is easily available to the museum and 
conservation professional. Also covered will be the techniques and 
equipment used only by a professional rigger, providing students with the 
knowledge to work successfully with professional riggers.

The course will include lectures and hands-on experience, and will cover:

A review of what "rigging" means for museums and conservators in private 
practice, along with a brief history of rigging techniques and technologies, 
followed by demonstrations of rigging equipment. 

Organizing a rigging crew and rigging boxes. 

Working with crates, pallets, and dunnage while protecting floors, 
surrounding structures, and lawn/landscape. 

Forklift training. 

Common rigging problems such as locating load centers, handling 
unbalanced and long loads, and supporting weak sections of an artifact. 

Specifying and ordering cranes. 

Enrollment Limit: 12 
Course Fee: $1,315 (including accommodations) 
Registration Deadline: July 1, 2004 

To register or for more information, contact

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies
PO Box 66
203 E. Seminary
Mt. Carroll IL 61053-0066
(815) 244-1173
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http://campbellcenter.org

Located in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, the Campbell Center for Historic
Preservation Studies offers continuing education to meet the training
needs of individuals who work to preserve historic landscapes and
cultural, historic, and artistic properties. Workshops and courses last
from two days to two weeks. Students are housed in dormitories on the
campus of the former Shimer College, a group of 14 structures listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.  Mt. Carroll is in the Northwest
corner of Illinois, about 2 ½ hours from Chicago. 

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