MS 202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Lori Benson
Dates: Sep 4 to Sep 28, 2012
Price: $475
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
The building and storage furniture are your first line of protection for
the most valuable asset in your museum - the collection. Museum Storage
Facilities and Furniture concentrates on building systems and furniture
for storing and protecting collections. Topics include environmental
controls, insulation, floor coatings and predicting space requirements.
Museum Storage also compares commercial and homemade furniture and
provides a blueprint for planning the redesign of your facility. Storage
philosophy, construction requirements, safety and security and planning
are covered. A unit details how commercial museum-quality cabinetry is
constructed. Blueprints are provided for high-quality, homemade cabinets.
Logistics:
Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture work at
individual paces through five sections. Instructor Helen Alten is
available at scheduled times during the course for email support.
Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint
lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web
sites.
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture 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:
Lori Benson is an independent museum professional based in Maine. Ms.
Benson has a B.A. in biology and a Masters of Library and Informational
Science specializing in rare books and archives. She started working at
the Minnesota Historical Society in 1990, finishing a grant funded
position as the Preservation Outreach Representative. After a series of
project positions at the Historical Society, including Assistant Moving
Coordinator, she was hired by the Science Museum of Minnesota as their
first Collections Manager in 1994. She was Project Director in the
Research and Collections Division for the new facility planning and
move. The project was published as Moving the Mountain, the Science
Museum of Minnesota Guide to Moving Collections. In addition to her
position at the Science Museum, Ms. Benson was adjunct faculty at
Dominican University/College of St. Catherine Department of Library
Science teaching Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials and
Archives Administration in 2000-2001. In 2003, she was hired by Texas
Natural Science Center, University of Texas at Austin (formerly Texas
Memorial Museum) to de-accession their entire cultural collection. She
continues to be a University of Texas Affiliate. She has taught museum
studies to undergraduates and given many talks and lectures on
preservation, deaccessioning, project planning and moving. She is a
member of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections and the Registrars' Committee of the American Association of
Museums. In her second life, she teaches handweaving.
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Brad Bredehoft
Sales and Technology Manager
Northern States Conservation Center
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