[NHCOLL-L:4644] Microclimates course online in January

[helen at collectioncare.org]

MS242: Museum Microclimates
Dates: Jan 4 - Jan 29, 2010
Price: $475
Instructor: Jerry Shiner

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.

Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Microclimates and History of
Microclimates
2. Components of a Microclimate
3 Microclimate Enclosures
4. Passive Environmental Controls
5. Active Environmental Controls, Pollution, Case Leakage
6. Monitoring a Microclimate

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.