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
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