[NHCOLL-L:4126] Museum microclimates class online in January

[Helen Alten]

Northern States Conservation Center announces a new online course for 
the start of 2009:

MS 242: Museum Microclimates
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
Dates: January 5 through 30, 2009
Price: $425
Location:  www.museumclasses.org

Description
A microclimate is the environment immediately surrounding an 
artifact. Microclimates designed for optimum storage, display, or 
treatment conditions can be created and maintained in showcases, 
storage cabinets, rooms, or plastic bags. This course covers the 
basics of creating and maintaining microclimates, including 
discussions of suitable enclosures and appropriate means of 
controlling humidity, temperature, pollution, and oxygen. Learn what 
constitutes a microclimate, how to use silica gel and other 
environmental control materials, how to reduce internally generated 
pollutants, and techniques for monitoring the microclimate you have created.

Course Outline
1. Introduction to Microclimates and History of Microclimates
2. Components of a Microclimate
3. Microclimate Enclosures
4. Passive Environmental Controls
5. Active Environmental Controls, Pollution, Case Leakage
6. Monitoring a Microclimate

Logistics
Participants in Museum Microclimates work through sections on their 
own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide 
lectures and dialog between students and the instructor through online forums.

Museum Microclimates 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 
helen at collectioncare.org or Eric Swanson at eric at museumclasses.org .

The Instructor
Jerry Shiner has been providing consultant services for environmental 
control of museum display and storage applications for almost twenty 
years. Mr. Shiner has extensive expertise in both active and passive 
methods of mitigating and controlling humidity, temperature, 
pollution, and oxygen levels for display and storage enclosures. His 
experience includes working with architects, engineers, and 
conservators to design both local and central systems for large 
museums. As founder of Keepsafe Microclimate Systems he has provided 
hundreds of active and passive solutions for low oxygen treatment and 
storage (anoxia), and showcase humidity and temperature control. Mr. 
Shiner is author of numerous articles on microclimate storage and 
display. His clients include museums in the US and Europe. When not 
working on microclimates, Mr. Shiner can bang out a passable version 
of "Lady of Spain" on the accordion.
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