MS223: Care of Metals
Instructor: David Harvey
Price: $475
Dates: July 2 to Aug 10, 2012

Description:
Outdoor sculpture, silver tea service, gold jewelry, axe head, wheel rim 
- metals are found in most museum collections and may be stored or 
displayed indoor or outdoors depending on the object. Learn how to 
identify different types of metal and their alloys. Gain an 
understanding of how and why metals deteriorate and methods for 
preventing deterioration from occurring or continuing. The pros and cons 
of different popular treatments will be covered along with 
recommendations for the least damaging approach to treatment. Care of 
Metals provides a simplified explanation of the chemistry and structure 
of metals, explaining the importance of the galvanic series and 
electrochemistry in care strategies. Starting with an overview of the 
history and function of metals and how they are made, the course will 
cover guidelines for handling, labeling, exhibiting and storing metals. 
An overview of treatments, including cleaning, used on metals and how 
appropriate they are for the long-term preservation of the metal object 
will help students make care decisions when consulting with conservators.

Logistics:
Participants in Care of Metals work through sections on their own. 
Materials and resources include online literature, slide lectures and 
dialog between students and the instructor through online forums. The 
course is limited to 20 participants.

Care of Metals runs six 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:
Dave Harvey is currently a consultant to the producers of a new National 
Geographic Television Series, America's Lost Treasures, set in museums 
across the USA. David is also a senior conservator with Rosa Lowinger 
and Associates - specializing in Objects, Architecture, and Sculpture.

He has thirty years of diverse experience in conservation, 
archaeological fieldwork, and American living history museum craftwork 
and interpretation. David was the archaeological conservator for the 
James River Institute for Archaeology, The Yorktown Archaeological 
trust, and the Virginia Company Foundation doing fieldwork, artifact 
cataloguing, scientific analysis, and the conservation and stabilization 
of diverse historical and prehistoric archaeological artifacts. He was 
the lab manager for the Metals & Arms conservation lab at Colonial 
Williamsburg. He was also responsible for the design and equipment 
specifications for the new Metals &Arms laboratory, X-radiography 
facility, and Analytical Laboratory in the DeWitt Wallace Collections & 
Conservation Building on the Bruton Heights School Education Center 
Campus. David was appointed Head of the Objects Conservation Department 
at The Rocky Mountain Conservation Center at the University of Denver, 
was the proprietor of his own professional conservation and consulting 
company Artifacts, and was the Senior Associate Conservator for Griswold 
Conservation Associates. David is a Professional Associate of The 
American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and has served as the local 
arrangements chair for the annual AIC meeting, program chair, chair, and 
emeritus chair of the Objects specialty group and editor of the New 
Materials and Research Column for the AIC News. David has pursued 
educational outreach during his career in diverse media such as 
scientific/technical journals, popular magazines and journals, 
television, and audio-visual lectures & workshops.

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

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