<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
span.PlainTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Plain Text";
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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
<a href="mailto:jeff.stephenson@dmns.org">jeff.stephenson@dmns.org</a>, and we’ll see that you get in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">From Museum Study, LLC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Storage Techniques online course begins May 31 on MuseumStudy.com Join Instructor Rebecca Newberry for the 4 week course Storage Techniques. Is your collection at risk due to poor storage methods? Good storage mounts are essential for
preserving museum collections. Building on the related course, Materials for Exhibit, Moving, and Storage, in Storage Techniques, you will learn about the materials, tools, ideas, and techniques needed to create quality storage mounts. You will design and
build a storage mount for an object of your choosing and plan a storage improvement project for a collection of objects using archival materials and techniques.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.museumstudy.com/storage-techniques">https://www.museumstudy.com/storage-techniques</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Marketing Plans for Heritage Sites course begins May 31 on MuseumStudy.com Without a doubt marketing is one of the most critical aspects of any heritage or interpretive attraction operations. Marketing brings in visitors, creates new
market groups - and gets them to come back for return visits. Successful marketing efforts = staying in business for most heritage attractions, particularly those not totally supported by local governments or other governmental agencies. Yet many agencies
and organizations don't have marketing plans or yet... "successful marketing plans".<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Join interpretive planning consultant John Veverka for the new 4 week online course Marketing Plans for Heritage Sites.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.museumstudy.com/marketing-plans-for-heritage-interpretation-sites">https://www.museumstudy.com/marketing-plans-for-heritage-interpretation-sites</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Decolonizing Museums in Practice course begins July 5 on MuseumStudy.com Articles about decolonizing museums are everywhere these days, but what does this actually mean in practice for museum professionals?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The text book can take a while to arrive so make sure to order it well in advance if you can not find it locally. This course fills early, but runs multiple times a year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.museumstudy.com/decolonizing-museums-in-practice">https://www.museumstudy.com/decolonizing-museums-in-practice</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Keeping Historic Houses & Museums Clean 4 week online course begins July<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">5 on MuseumStudy.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">An unkempt museum or historic house is not appealing to the visitor nor is it healthy for the staff and collection. In this 4 week online professional development course instructor Gretchen Anderson will lay a foundation as to how to
clean objects and facilities safely. We will explore a variety of subjects, including health and safety for the staff and the objects, cleaning methods for a large variety of collection types common in art & cultural institutions and the importance of documenting
what you do.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">One former participant said, "This class was so helpful! This was such a great resource! For the first time since I started working here, my staff really seems to understand why I ask them to do what we do. It has really been the start
of some great conversations on site and we will 100% use the techniques learned."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cleaning and sterilizing the museum is in the news these days. Once we get back in to our museums and historic houses we will need to be extra careful. Please join us for this timely class to look at methods to protect both the collection
and your visitors.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.museumstudy.com/keeping-historic-houses-and-museums-clean">https://www.museumstudy.com/keeping-historic-houses-and-museums-clean</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Policies for Managing Collections 4 week online course begins July 5 on MuseumStudy.com Join instructor John Simmons author of Things Great and Small:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Collections Management Policies for the course Policies for Managing Collections. Participants in the course can purchase the Second Edition of the book at a discount. In this course we will critically examine the purposes and functions
of collections management policies, including how collections are defined, acquired, managed, used, maintained, and deaccessioned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.museumstudy.com/policies-for-managing-collections">https://www.museumstudy.com/policies-for-managing-collections</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums course begins July 5 on MuseumStudy.com Join us for this new course born out of the challenges we all encountered this last year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums will cover creating both synchronous and asynchronous programs, connecting with teachers, and some technical skills to ensure that you can support teachers and students virtually as
they learn from you and your museum. By the end of the course, participants will have built several different virtual education programs that will be ready to use.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Participants will create at least 3 different virtual museum education programs and learn to use technology tools and build skills to help them develop additional virtual learning opportunities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="https://www.museumstudy.com/creating-virtual-learning-opportunities-in-museums">https://www.museumstudy.com/creating-virtual-learning-opportunities-in-museums</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Brad Bredehoft<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">CEO<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Museum Study, LLC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.MuseumStudy.com">www.MuseumStudy.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr style="height:.05in">
<td width="235" valign="top" style="width:176.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">JEFF STEPHENSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">COLLECTIONS MANAGER, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
</td>
<td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.15pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:.05in">
<td width="235" valign="top" style="width:176.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.15pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:.05in">
<td width="235" valign="top" style="width:176.5pt;border:none;border-right:solid #79AEBF 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.dmns.org/"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="208" height="29" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D74269.BAC7BB10" alt="DMNS 2 Line RGB small.jpg"></span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.15pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jeff.stephenson@dmns.org"><span style="color:blue">jeff.stephenson@dmns.org</span></a></span><u><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">W</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> 303.370.8319<br>
<b>F </b>303.331.6492</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:.05in">
<td width="235" valign="top" style="width:176.5pt;border:none;border-right:solid #79AEBF 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver CO 80205<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://community.dmns.org/content/OnlineCommunity.aspx"><span style="color:blue">preserve,</span></a> present, inspire, explore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="154" valign="top" style="width:115.15pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.05in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="www.dmns.org"><span style="color:blue">www.dmns.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">We are </span><a href="https://bit.ly/2YApSao" target="_blank" title="https://bit.ly/2YApSao"><span style="color:#0563C1">OPEN</span></a>! Explore ancient mysteries and modern discoveries in <a href="http://bit.ly/3epLv6v" target="_blank" title="http://bit.ly/3epLv6v"><span style="color:#0563C1">"Stonehenge"</span></a> the
exhibition. <span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;background:white">ˇEl museo está </span><u><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;background:yellow"><a href="https://bit.ly/2YApSao" target="_blank"><span lang="DE" style="color:#0563C1;background:white">ABIERTO</span></a></span></u><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;background:white">!
Explora los misterios antiguos y los descubrimientos modernos en la exhibición </span><u><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;background:yellow"><a href="http://bit.ly/3epLv6v" target="_blank"><span lang="RU" style="color:#0563C1;background:white">"</span><i><span lang="DE" style="color:black;background:white">Stonehenge</span></i><span lang="RU" style="color:#0563C1;background:white">"</span></a></span></u><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;background:white">. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;background:white"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Denver Museum of Nature & Science salutes the citizens of metro Denver for helping fund arts, culture and science through their support of the
</span></i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.scfd.org/"><i><span style="color:blue">Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD)</span></i></a><i>.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>