MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture Instructor: Helen Alten Dates: July 11 - August 5, 2005 Price: $350 The Northern States Conservation Center (http://www.collectioncare.org) announces the up-dated course: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture at www.museumclasses.org. This course concentrates on building systems and furniture as they relate to storage and protection of the collection. Environmental controls, insulation, floor coatings, and predicting space requirements are covered. Then the course covers the types of storage furniture you might choose for your new facility. Commerically available furniture and home-made furniture are discussed. This course provides the blueprint for how to approach architects and engineers as well as redesigning your facility yourself. Starting with the philosophy of storage, the course covers construction requirements, security, fire and water prevention, types of furniture, and how to plan for collections growth. A new unit details how commercial museum quality storage cabinetry is constructed. Blueprints are provided for high-quality, home-made cabinets. The course format is self-paced through 5 sections. The instructor will be available Monday, Wednesday and Friday by e-mail, and for course at predetermined intervals throughout the course. Students will be working individually and interact through forums and scheduled on-line chats. Materials include web versions of reading materials and lecture notes. Supporting resources include message forums, weekly online chats, email support, projects, quizzes, and links to relevant websites. The course will last for four weeks and cover all the details needed to plan storage expansions or improvements. (It does not include improvements such as mounts to individual artifacts.) This course will include handouts, on-line literature, slide lectures, and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20 participants. If you are interested in the course, please sign up at www.museumclasses.org and pay for the course at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. If you have trouble with either, please contact Helen Alten at [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).