Still time to sign up for Online Museum Courses starting July 8, 2019!  Join one of our excellent instructors for one of these interesting and informative courses.

MS203: Museum Storage Techniques

July 8-August 2, 2019

Instructor:  Laura Elliff Cruz

Location: http://museumclasses.org

Description:

Is your collection stacked, packed and stressed? Museum Storage Techniques has the solution. The course builds on its sister course, Museum Facilities and Furniture, which looks at the bigger storage environment.. The Museum Storage Techniques course emphasizes the needs of individual objects and collection groupings. Guidelines for specific materials are provided. Participants learn about storage materials and mounts and the most effective use of trays, drawers, shelves and cabinets.

For more information or to sign up: https://www.collectioncare.org/museum-storage-techniques-line-course

MS207: Cataloging Your Collection

July 8 to August 2, 2019

Instructor:  Peggy Schaller

Location: http://museumclasses.org

Description:

Cataloging may not be the most exciting museum task, but it is among the most important. Without a clear knowledge of your holdings, you can't protect, care for, research or exhibit them. Without knowledge of an item's history, you can't properly appreciate its value to your museum. Cataloging Your Collection covers all details needed to catalog a collection. Procedures for handling, measuring and describing all types of objects and materials are discussed in detail. Participants receive sample forms and learn the best practices for numbering artifacts, performing inventory and assessing the condition of objects. Participants practice describing everyday objects and cataloging items from their own collections or households.

For more information or to sign up: https://www.collectioncare.org/collections-management-cataloging-your-collection-line-course

MS211: Preservation Environments

July 8 to August 16, 2019

Instructor:  Ernest Conrad

Location: http://museumclasses.org

Description:

The museum's brick exterior wall is crumbling. The powder coated metal storage shelves have active rust under the foam padding. Objects in fur storage are covered in mold. It is raining in the exhibit hall. This is the damage that occurs to museum buildings or collection when staff do not understand preservation environments. Preservation Environments is essential knowledge for any collecting institution. Everyone should understand how humidity and temperature are controlled by a building and its mechanical system. For museum staff considering a new building - and any institution planning to expand or rebuild an existing one - Preservation Environments provide important information for calculating whether the proposed improvements will actually improve the environmental control of your protective enclosure. Participants learn the advantages and disadvantages of numerous methods of temperature and humidity control. Preservation Environments does not try to turn museum professionals into engineers. Rather, it arms them with the knowledge they need to work with engineers and maintenance professionals. And helps explain why damaged occurred and how to keep it from happening again.

For more information or to sign up: https://www.collectioncare.org/preservation-environments-line-course

MS267: Museum Ethics

July 8 to August 2, 2019

Instructor:  Peggy Schaller

Location: http://museumclasses.org

Description:

This course will examine the role of ethics in museums and related institutions. Topics addressed will include the differences in ethics, laws, and morals; what ethics are and where they come from; the ethical codes that museum professionals follow; how ethics affect professional practices; why ethics are important; and how ethical standards can help museums and related institutions better serve society. Participants in the course will gain an understanding of the importance of ethics in professional museum practice, how codes of ethics are written and why they are important, and will develop an understanding of the most significant codes of ethics subscribed to by museum professionals.

For more information or to sign up: https://www.collectioncare.org/museum-ethics-line-course

MS271: Training for Interpretive Trainers

July 8 to August 2, 2019

Instructor:  John Veverka

Location: http://museumclasses.org

Description:

It’s often difficult to teach interpretive techniques and principles to others when you may have not had any formal training in interpretation yourself.  The course provides ways to develop and deliver interpretive training courses and workshops for cultural sites and staff charged with developing interpretive training for their docents, volunteers, seasonal interpretive staff, or full time interpretive staff.

This course includes a copy of our new e-textbook, the Interpretive Trainers Handbook.

Course Goals: Upon completion of this course participants will:
- Have interpretive training program lesson plans and schedule of instructions drafted out.
- Have a working knowledge of key interpretive elements they should be teaching.

For more information or to sign up: https://www.collectioncare.org/training-interpretive-trainers

MS010: Condition Assessments (Short Course)

July 15 - 19, 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth Burton

Location:  http://museumclasses.org

Description:

Whenever an object leaves or enters your museum, it should have a dated condition report completed. A condition report is so much more than "good" or "poor." Learn about different types of condition reports, what is essential and what is optional information in each, the function of a condition report, and how to use an online condition assessment tool.

For more information or to sign up: https://www.collectioncare.org/condition-assessments-line-short-course

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