Join Northern States Conservation Center for our exciting new course The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental Sustainability in Museums. We are excited to have Sarah Brophy coauthor of The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Sustainability, teaching our first course on sustainability.

MS265: The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental Sustainability in Museums
Instructor: Sarah S. Brophy
Dates: May 7 to Jun 8, 2012
Price: $475
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Explore how the realities and principles of environmental sustainability can be applied to museum situations. The course includes discussions about the philosophy of going green, and how it affects institutional policy and planning. Students will be required to keep a journal, collect photographs, and to visit two museums – one not your own. Upon completing this course, students will be able to: 1. apply principles of environmental-sustainability to work and personal decisions 2. identify and test facts, understand trade-offs, and recognize mission-effects related to environmental sustainability when they make choices at their museums for programming, and operational projects 3. encourage others to adopt sustainable practice within a museum context; and support others in bringing about change in an institution and in the field

Logistics:
Participants in The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental Sustainability in Museums work at their own pace through sections and interact through online chats. Instructor Sarah Brophy is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. The Green Museum includes online literature and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20 participants.

The Green Museum runs 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:
Sarah S. Brophy, LEED-AP, is consultant for museums, historic sites, zoos and gardens pursuing environmental sustainability in their buildings, operations and programming. She works with the Detroit Zoo, the Peoria Riverfront Museum, and Green Energy Design. She also teaches The Green Museum at The George Washington University Museum Studies Graduate Program. Currently she is a co-chair of the American Association of Museum’s Professional Interest Committee on Environmental Sustainability. Sarah is the co-author of The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Sustainability, and author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? She authored or co-authored chapters in four other textbooks including The Manual of Museum Planning, Third Edition, and Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century. Her articles have appeared in the American Association of Museum’s Museum News and Museum magazines, The American Association of State and Local History’s History News, and The American Public Garden Association’s Public Garden. Sarah is bent on demonstrating that museums, zoos, gardens and aquariums should be leaders in modeling and promoting sustainable living and learning. Sarah Brophy runs bMuse a consultancy for museums that believes that the defining feature of museums is experiential learning – the pleasure, power and opportunity of it. Her work focuses on helping museums become sustainable through strategic grants development, cost-saving green buildings and behavior, and in mainstreaming actions that strengthen relevance and responsiveness to the audiences they serve.

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

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