[NHCOLL-L:3184] September museum storage class

[Helen Alten]

September Course Announcement

MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: September 25  October 20, 2006
Price: $350

Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture at www.museumclasses.org 
concentrates on building systems and furniture as they relate to storage 
and protection of the collection.  Environmental controls, insulation, 
floor coatings, and predicting space requirements are covered.  Then the 
course covers the types of storage furniture you might choose for your new 
facility.  Commercially available furniture and home-made furniture are 
discussed. This course provides the blueprint for how to approach 
architects and engineers as well as redesigning your facility 
yourself.  Starting with the philosophy of storage, the course covers 
construction requirements, security, fire and water prevention, types of 
furniture, and how to plan for collections growth.  A new unit details how 
commercial museum quality storage cabinetry is constructed.  Blueprints are 
provided for high-quality, home-made cabinets.

The course format is self-paced through 5 sections. The instructor will be 
available by e-mail, and at predetermined intervals throughout the course 
for real-time chats. Students will be working individually and interact 
through forums and scheduled on-line chats. Materials include web versions 
of reading materials and lecture notes. Supporting resources include 
message forums, weekly online chats, email support, projects, quizzes, and 
links to relevant websites.

The course will last for four weeks and cover all the details needed to 
plan storage expansions or improvements. (It does not include 
improvements  such as mounts to individual artifacts.) This course will 
include handouts, on-line literature, slide lectures, and 
student-teacher/group-teacher dialog.

If you are interested in the course, please sign up at 
www.museumclasses.org and pay for the course at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html.  If you have trouble with 
either, please contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/private/nhcoll-l/attachments/20060912/1563b513/attachment.html