[NHCOLL-L:5812] Museum Microclimates online course begins February 6
Helen Alten
helen at collectioncare.org
Thu Jan 26 16:43:24 EST 2012
Northern States Conservation Center offers a course on microclimates
that might be of use to exhibit case builders, conservators, collections
managers and pest control officers interested in anoxia treatments.
MS242: Museum Microclimates
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
Price: $475
Dates: Feb 6 to Mar 2, 2012
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
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.
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. For more in formation visit his web site KEEPSAFE
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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org
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