Northern States Conservation Center
offers a course on microclimates that might be of use to exhibit
case builders, conservators, collections managers and pest control
officers interested in anoxia treatments.
MS242: Museum Microclimates
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
Price: $475
Dates: Jan 10 to Feb 4, 2011
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
A microclimate is the environment immediately surrounding an
artifact. Microclimates designed for optimum storage, display,
or treatment conditions can be created and maintained in
showcases, storage cabinets, rooms, or plastic bags. This course
covers the basics of creating and maintaining microclimates,
including discussions of suitable enclosures and appropriate
means of controlling humidity, temperature, pollution, and
oxygen. Learn what constitutes a microclimate, how to use silica
gel and other environmental control materials, how to reduce
internally generated pollutants, and techniques for monitoring
the microclimate you have created.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Microclimates and History of Microclimates
2. Components of a Microclimate
3 Microclimate Enclosures
4. Passive Environmental Controls
5. Active Environmental Controls, Pollution, Case Leakage
6. Monitoring a Microclimate
Logistics:
Participants in Museum Microclimates work through sections on
their own. Materials and resources include online literature,
slide lectures and dialog between students and the instructor
through online forums.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
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The Instructor:
Jerry Shiner has been providing consultant
services for environmental control of museum display and storage
applications for almost twenty years. Mr. Shiner has extensive
expertise in both active and passive methods of mitigating and
controlling humidity, temperature, pollution, and oxygen levels
for display and storage enclosures. His experience includes
working with architects, engineers, and conservators to design
both local and central systems for large museums. As founder of
Keepsafe Microclimate Systems he has provided hundreds of active
and passive solutions for low oxygen treatment and storage
(anoxia), and showcase humidity and temperature control. Mr.
Shiner is author of numerous articles on microclimate storage
and display. His clients include museums in the US and Europe.