Looking for ways to talk to your facilities manager about the proper environment for your collections?  Want to know more how the museum environment and how it can help or damage your collections?  This is the course for you!

 

MS 211: Preservation Environments

November 6 to December 15, 2023  

Instructor: Ernest Conrad

Location: https://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: https://www.collectioncare.org/preservation-environments-line-course