Hi Everyone,
In mid-September I will be teaching a two-week short online course for Museum Classes Online on "Paranormal Investigations In Museums and Historic Sites". The course is structured to introduce museum colleagues to the topic and how these investigations work, to assess the pro's and con's, and then at the end the participants formulate their own policies or programs. The course is also open to people who investigate the paranormal who want to understand the museum or historic site perspective and how best to integrate their practices when they approach us.
There are many things you will discover in the course that you may not know - for instance that many paranormal groups are devoted to history and preservation and often do events as fund-raisers to help their local historic sites and museums.
I would love to update my information in regards to policies (sample policies would be wonderful if you can share them) and also I'd love to hear from museums or historic sites who have their own paranormal / ghost programs or who work with a local paranormal group to run one. I have already have examples but would love to get it all up to date. Please send them to my email off of the list.
The formal announcement for the course will be coming out soon.
If any of you are interested in taking the course you can go to http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms013.html to read the course description and to register.
As many of you know I have a long career in conservation so I will obviously have a segment in the course devoted to preservation to reinforce awareness as to why museums and historic sites have many policies related to that.
Cheers!
Dave
David Harvey
Senior Conservator & Museum Consultant
Los Angeles CA
CityOfAngelsConservation.weebly.com
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