[NHCOLL-L:4130] Museum registration course online in January
Helen Alten
helen at collectioncare.org
Tue Dec 16 21:29:30 EST 2008
Northern States Conservation Center announces an
online museum registration course for the start of 2009:
MS 103: The Basics of Museum Registration
Instructor: Peggy Schaller
Dates: January 19 through February 14, 2009
Price: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description::
Discover why museums use those little bitsy
numbers on artifacts. Master the ABCs of museum
record keeping in the Basics of Museum
Registration. Participants learn about
registration, accession, common numbering systems
and how to craft a mission statement for their
museum. Finally, the course reviews the
importance of having - and using - a registration
manual and what it should contain.
Each participant will write a mission statement,
as well as collection and acquisition policies
for a "new" museum. The curriculum also requires
written commentary on museum missions, an
accessioning exercise and drafting a sample registration manual.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. The Museum Mission Statement
3. Accessioning and Numbering
4. Registration Manual
5. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in the Basics of Museum Registration
work at their own pace through five sections and
interact through online forums and chats.
Instructor Peggy Schaller will be available at
scheduled times for email support. The course
covers everything you need to know to process a
collection. Materials include online readings and
lecture notes, slide shows, quizzes and links to relevant web sites.
Basics of Museum Registration runs for four
weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please
pay at
<http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html>http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html
If you have trouble with either, please contact
Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org
Student Comments for MS103: The Basics of Museum Registration
"I have enjoyed many of the classes offered
through NSCC and really learn a lot.
The class
was taught extremely well and provided grateful
information. Peggy was an inspiring person!" - Student in MS103
" I liked the exercise where we chose the
different items we would have in the museum. That
one was hard because I didn't always know how to
justify something I wanted or didn't want
I was
even asking my family at the dinner table and we
were all talking about what we would keep and
what we wouldn't! I would definitely take another class." - Student in MS103
This course was a great quick course
I will
look forward to taking more in the future
The
instructor was very helpful and available. - Student in MS103
"The class was set up so that someone with very
little time could learn a lot in a short period.
It provided information that was useful in the
actual context of work." - Student in MS103
"I have enjoyed many of the classes offered
through NSCC and really learn a lot.
The class
was taught extremely well and provided grateful
information. Peggy was an inspiring person with
so much to learn from! - Student in MS103
The Instructor:
Peggy Schaller, founded Collections Research for
Museums in 1991 to provide consulting on
cataloging, collection-management training and
services. She has worked with a large variety of
museums and collections for more than 17 years.
Peggy, who lives in Denver, Colorado, has a
bachelor's degree in anthropology with minors in
art history and geology from the University of
Arizona in Tucson. She has a master's degree in
anthropology with a minor in museum studies from
the University of Colorado in Boulder and is a
certified institutional protection specialist.
She provides workshops to museums and historical
societies in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and
Wyoming. The mission of Collections Research for
Museums is to inspire museums to improve their
professional standards, collections stewardship
and service to their constituency through
training in, and assistance with, documenting,
preserving, protecting and managing their collections.
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