[NHCOLL-L:5785] Join us February 6 for an exciting new online course The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental Sustainability in Museums

[Helen Alten]

MS265: The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental Sustainability in 
Museums
Instructor: Sarah S. Brophy
Dates: Feb 6 to Mar 9, 2012
Price: $475
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Explore how the realities and principles of environmental sustainability 
can be applied to museum situations. The course includes discussions 
about the philosophy of going green, and how it affects institutional 
policy and planning. Students will be required to keep a journal, 
collect photographs, and to visit two museums – one not your own. Upon 
completing this course, students will be able to: 1. apply principles of 
environmental-sustainability to work and personal decisions 2. identify 
and test facts, understand trade-offs, and recognize mission-effects 
related to environmental sustainability when they make choices at their 
museums for programming, and operational projects 3. encourage others to 
adopt sustainable practice within a museum context; and support others 
in bringing about change in an institution and in the field

Logistics:
Participants in The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental 
Sustainability in Museums work at their own pace through sections and 
interact through online chats. Instructor Sarah Brophy is available at 
scheduled times during the course for email support. The Green Museum 
includes online literature and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The 
course is limited to 20 participants.

The Green Museum 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:
Sarah S. Brophy, LEED-AP, is consultant for museums, historic sites, 
zoos and gardens pursuing environmental sustainability in their 
buildings, operations and programming. She works with the Detroit Zoo, 
the Peoria Riverfront Museum, and Green Energy Design. She also teaches 
The Green Museum at The George Washington University Museum Studies 
Graduate Program. Currently she is a co-chair of the American 
Association of Museum’s Professional Interest Committee on Environmental 
Sustainability. Sarah is the co-author of The Green Museum: A Primer on 
Environmental Sustainability, and author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? 
She authored or co-authored chapters in four other textbooks including 
The Manual of Museum Planning, Third Edition, and Sustainable Museums: 
Strategies for the 21st Century. Her articles have appeared in the 
American Association of Museum’s Museum News and Museum magazines, The 
American Association of State and Local History’s History News, and The 
American Public Garden Association’s Public Garden. Sarah is bent on 
demonstrating that museums, zoos, gardens and aquariums should be 
leaders in modeling and promoting sustainable living and learning. Sarah 
Brophy runs bMuse a consultancy for museums that believes that the 
defining feature of museums is experiential learning – the pleasure, 
power and opportunity of it. Her work focuses on helping museums become 
sustainable through strategic grants development, cost-saving green 
buildings and behavior, and in mainstreaming actions that strengthen 
relevance and responsiveness to the audiences they serve.

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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org