[NHCOLL-L:5885] Museum Management online course starts April 2

[Helen Alten]

MS109: Museum Management
Instructor: Sue Near
Price: $475
Dates: Aril 2 through May 4, 2012
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Sound business practices are critical for a museum to fulfill its 
mission. Sounds like vegetables, right? Museum Management is complex. A 
museum exists to preserve collections and educate, but it is also an 
institution that must employ sound business practices while being 
accountable to the public as a non-profit organization. Instructor Sue 
Near teaches participants how to administer a successful museum 
efficiently and effectively. Participants will engage in discussions 
about the changing cultural climate and its effect on museum operations.

Logistics:
Participants in Museum Management work through sections the above 
sections on their own. Instructor Susan Near is available for scheduled 
email support. Materials and resources include online literature and 
references, slide lectures and dialog between students and online chats 
led by the instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants.

Museum Management runs six 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:
Susan Near is special projects manager at the Montana Historical Society 
in Helena. Prior positions at the Historical Society include director of 
museum services (1989-2007), curator of collections (1984-1989), and 
registrar (1982-1984). She also worked as collections research 
specialist at the Valley Forge Historical Society in Pennsylvania. She 
has been curator for more than 20 major exhibitions ranging from western 
art to decorative arts, and has conducted material culture research 
covering a broad range of collections. Near co-authored Montana's State 
Capitol:The People's House, Montana Historical Society Press, 2002. Near 
has extensive administrative experience especially in grant-writing, 
heritage tourism, educational outreach, public relations, marketing, 
planning for new museum construction, and project and event management. 
She is an accreditation visiting committee member for the American 
Association of Museums, has conducted peer reviews for the Museums 
Assessment Program, and has reviewed and served on grants panels for the 
Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for 
the Humanities. Ms. Near is a graduate of the Museum Studies Program at 
the University of Delaware and the Getty's Museum Management Institute.

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