[NHCOLL-L:5154] Storage class starts online next Monday

[Helen Alten]

There is still space in this course:

*MS201: Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage Principles*
*Instructor: *Helen Alten
*Dates: *Jan 10 to Feb 18, 2011
*Location:* Online at www.museumclasses.org
*For more information: 
*http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms201.html*

**Storage for Infinity *covers everything you need to know to limit 
damage to stored collections. Participants will learn about building new 
storage areas and retrofitting existing space. Other topics include 
constructing support mounts and storage security. The material 
emphasizes philosophy and planning, handling, materials and techniques.

*Course Outline:*
1. Introduction
2. Storage Philosophy
3. Agents of Deterioration and Preservation Planning
4. Storage Facilities
5. Storage Furniture
6. Preparing Collections for Storage
7. Storage Materials
8. Storage Mounts
9. Storage of Specific Collections
10. Funding Improvements
11. Conclusion

**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:*
*Helen Alten*, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center 
and its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been 
involved in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at 
the Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the 
University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological 
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at 
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation 
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska, Minnesota and West 
Virginia. She has a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials 
and their deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections 
Caretaker, maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, 
lectures throughout the United States on collection care topics, was 
instrumental in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response 
in small Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants 
for NEH and IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot 
programs, and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She 
has published chapters on conservation and deterioration of 
archeological glass with the Materials Research Society and the York 
Archaeological Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction 
techniques in Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit 
(2002), preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for 
a small museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' 
Collection Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book 
on numbering museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease 
Museum in Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, 
Conservator, and staff trainer. She began working with people from 
small, rural, and tribal museums while as the state conservator for 
Montana and Alaska. Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and 
operates a conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.
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