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