MS103: The Basics of Museum Registration (Only offered once in 2012)
Instructor: Peggy Schaller
Price: $475
Dates: Mar 5 to Mar 30, 2012
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Discover why museums use those little bitsy numbers on artifacts. Master
the ABCs of museum record keeping in the Basics of Museum Registration.
Participants learn about registration, accession, common numbering
systems and how to craft a mission statement for their museum. Finally,
the course reviews the importance of having - and using - a registration
manual and what it should contain.

Each participant will write a mission statement, as well as collection
and acquisition policies for a "new" museum. The curriculum also
requires written commentary on museum missions, an accessioning exercise
and drafting a sample registration manual.

Logistics:
Participants in the Basics of Museum Registration work at their own pace
through five sections and interact through online forums and chats.
Instructor Peggy Schaller will be available at scheduled times for email
support. The course covers everything you need to know to process a
collection. Materials include online readings and lecture notes, slide
shows, quizzes and links to relevant web sites.

Basics of Museum Registration runs for 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:
Peggy Schaller, founded Collections Research for Museums in 1991 to
provide cataloging, collection-management training and services. She has
worked with a large variety of museums and collections for more than 18
years. Peggy, who lives in Denver, Colorado, has a bachelor's degree in
anthropology with minors in art history and geology from the University
of Arizona in Tucson. She has a master's degree in anthropology with a
minor in museum studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder and
is a Certified Institutional Protection Manager II. She provides
workshops and project services to museums and historical societies all
across the country. The mission of Collections Research for Museums is
to inspire museums to improve their professional standards, collections
stewardship and service to their constituency through training in, and
assistance with, documenting, preserving, protecting and managing their
collections. For more information visit her web site Collections
Research for Museums

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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org

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