[Nhcoll-l] Museum Microclimates online course begins February 4

[Helen Alten]

Northern States Conservation Center offers a course on microclimates 
that might be of use to exhibit case builders, conservators, collections 
managers and pest control officers interested in anoxia treatments.

MS242: Museum Microclimates
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
Price: $475
Dates: February 4 to March 1, 2013
Location: Online at 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.

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

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. For more in formation visit his web site KEEPSAFE

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