Northern States Conservation Center is pleased to announce the return of its in-depth course on storage facilities and their furniture this June.  Also, starting in June, Northern States Conservation Center is offering a 10% discount to any person or institution paying for more than one 2007 class. 

MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
(Flier suitable for posting: http://www.museumclasses.org/flyers/MS202_storage_facilities.pdf )
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: (Available twice in 2007)
June 4 through 29, 2007
December 3 through 31, 2007
Cost: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture concentrates on building systems and furniture for storing and protecting collections. Topics include environmental controls, insulation, floor coatings and predicting space requirements. Museum Storage also compares commercial and homemade furniture and provides a blueprint for planning the redesign of your facility. Storage philosophy, construction requirements, safety and security and planning. A new unit details how commercial museum-quality cabinetry is constructed. Blueprints are provided for high-quality, homemade cabinets.

Course Outline:
1.      Storage Philosophy
2.      Agents of Deterioration and Preservation Planning
3.      Storage Facilities
4.      Storage Furniture
5.      Conclusion

Logistics:
Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture work at individual paces through five sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites.

Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture runs four weeks. 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]

Student Comments:

The content was perfect for what I was looking for. Though my class participation as minimal, the materials and information are here, there are links and lots of jumping off points that provide direction in areas I’m more interested in, and I can interact as time permits.

I liked the course content, the online nature of the course, the online chat and the self-paced work. I also liked the upload feature and the ability to re-submit after uploading for a period of time. . I would rate my online experience as a 10

I like that the material is at accessible, and I like being able to look ahead, or review the materials without having to go two or three places (book at home, papers on desktop, lessons in a deskfile).  I like the journal feature.

I appreciated how thorough the information in the lectures were and enjoyed the slides which gave “real-life” images.

The chats were the highlight of the course  great to have give-and-take with colleagues and an experienced conservator like Helen.  I felt like my specific questions were answered.

I really enjoyed having all the extra readings and references. I truly feel I can use those heavily in the future. The chats were very useful for having some questions answered.

The Instructor:
Helen Alten is an objects conservator and owner of Northern States Conservation Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been an educator, conservator and trainer since 1986. Ms. Alten received her master’s degree in archaeological conservation and materials science at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 1986. She began working with small, rural, and tribal museums as conservator for Montana and Alaska.


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