[Nhcoll-l] March - April On-Line Courses -- Museum Study LLC

Tue Feb 9 17:31:14 EST 2021

Hello,
Please see below for a compendium of on-line courses in Museum Studies and Collections Management.  This list is provided by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Professional Development Committee as a monthly service for nhcoll subscribers.  Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions.
As a reminder, nhcoll is not open for advertising by individuals; however, if you would like to have your courses appear in this compendium, please feel free to submit your offerings to jeff.stephenson at dmns.org<mailto:jeff.stephenson at dmns.org>, and we'll see that you get in.
Thank you

>From Museum Study, LLC

Materials for Exhibit, Moving, and Storage online course begins March 1 on MuseumStudy.com Are you using the best materials with your collections? What exactly does "archival" mean? How do you know you the material you are using is acceptable? Can you choose materials that are both good for collections and sustainable for the planet? Join conservator Rebecca Newberry for this 4 week online course, where you will learn what materials are safe for exhibiting, moving, and storing collections and consider ways to apply sustainable practices to materials use. You will create a customized handbook of materials and plan for an exhibit, moving, or storage project by identifying vendors and materials.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/materials-for-exhibit-moving-and-storage

Evaluating Interpretive Exhibits course begins March 1 on MuseumStudy.com Exhibits are one of the most expensive of interpretive media we use, and yet one of the media that we often really don't know if "it works".  We judge exhibits by their appearance rather than by their success in accomplishing meaningful objectives. We like to ask -if you spend

$10,000 on your exhibits, how will you determine if you're receiving

$10,000 in benefits from those exhibits? That's usually when we get the "deer in the headlights" stare.

Join professional interpreter John Veverka for this 4 week online course. It is the goal of this course to give you some simple tools for doing evaluations of, or critiquing exhibits. Some tools for critiquing existing exhibits - to see if they are accomplishing their objectives and may be in need of rehabilitation, and some for pre-post testing evaluation of exhibits first being designed to see if they are accomplishing their objectives prior to final construction so they can be "fixed" to be more effective.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/evaluating-interpretive-exhibits

Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 2 online course begins Mar 1 on MuseumStudy.com This course builds on the foundation instructor Robert Waller established in Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 1. We will explore challenges to quantifying risks and strategies for estimating rates of, and expected impacts of, sporadic incidents (type 2 risks) employing examples based on participant situations. Means of determining or estimating rates of progressive changes (type 3 risks) are provided and practiced. Finally, methods for presenting comprehensive, (semi-) quantitative risk profiles are demonstrated and employed by participants.

Prerequisite: Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 1 or a Protect Heritage workshop in the last 5 years.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/assessing-risk-to-cultural-property-2

Decolonizing Museums in Practice course begins Apr 5 on MuseumStudy.com Articles about decolonizing museums are everywhere these days, but what does this actually mean in practice for museum professionals working in what is now known as North America?

Join Laura Phillips, Heather George, and Nathan Sentance for this course where we will focus on looking critically at how museum professionals can activate decolonial ways of thinking in their own work environment, and in their day to day life.

We will investigate how the words of contemporary Indigenous scholars and curators can be put into practice to promote practices that de-centre the subtle (and not so subtle) colonial ways of thinking that surround us every day across this land.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/decolonizing-museums-in-practice

Moving Museum Collections course begins Apr 5 on MuseumStudy.com Are you planning a remodel, new storage, or a new building and will need to move all or part of your collection? Don't wait until the last minute. Join Instructor Lori Benson, veteran of three large scale museum collection moves, for the 4 week online course Moving Museum Collections.

This course provides an overview of how to plan and manage a move to avoid the many pitfalls. The course will help you define the scope of your project, develop a work plan and schedule, prepare a communication scheme, define proposals for vendors, choose equipment, estimate costs, identify hazards, organize staffing, and establish packing techniques and standards. Whether you are moving across the hall or across town, Moving Museum Collections will provide a guide for a successful move.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/moving-museum-collections

Introduction to Integrated Pest Management online course begins April 5 on MuseumStudy.com Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator, a founding member of the MuseumPest Working Group (museumpest.net) Gretchen Anderson for the 4 week course Introduction to Integrated Pest Management. Silverfish will eat your paper materials, moths will eat your woolens and feather objects, mice will gladly nest in anything they can! How can you protect the collection in your care from this very real and very serious threat?

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach, using low-toxicity strategies to manage the threat. This online course explores the foundation of knowledge needed to solve pest problems in a myriad of situations that might be encountered in cultural institutions.

For more information visit

https://www.museumstudy.com/introduction-to-integrated-pest-management

Introduction to Heritage Interpretation online course begins Apr 5 on MuseumStudy.com Interpretation is the most powerful communication process any historic or heritage site has available to communicate its message(s) to visitors!

It is in the interpretation of the sites story to visitors where the "heritage" of the site is brought to light. Interpretation makes the site come to life for the visitors, giving the site relevance and importance. It reveals to visitors, in powerful and memorable ways, the differences between "old" and historic.

Join instructor John Veverka for the course Introduction to Heritage Interpretation. The 4 week online course is an entry level interpretation course, the first in our series of interpretation courses. We will review the current state-of-the-art in interpretive philosophy, techniques and services, based on "outcome based"

interpretation.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/introduction-to-heritage-interpretation

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