[Nhcoll-l] February - March On-Line Classes

[Jeff Stephenson]

Hello,
Please see below for a compendium of on-line courses in Museum Studies and Collections Management.  This list is provided by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Professional Development Committee as a monthly service for Nhcoll subscribers.  Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions.
Thank you.

>From Museum Study, LLC

Grants for Museums and Historic Sites course begins Feb 6 on MuseumStudy.com Identifying and winning grants from foundations and governments is a mix of art and science. Join Instructor Sarah Sutton author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? for this 4 week long online course, which is designed for professionals either learning or reviewing their skills in raising money through grants. Philanthropy keeps changing, and so does grantmaking. Everyone on the team must contribute to raising money to do good work; those with grant-preparation skills are very valuable to the institution.

For more information visit our website:

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Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections 4 week online course begins Feb 6 on MuseumStudy.com Join instructor Angela Kipp for the 4 week online course Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections. Working with a previously unmanaged collection is one of the most challenging and rewarding projects in the career of a museum professional. Challenging because of the variety of issues like leaking roofs, missing documentation and the question as to whether there is actually a floor underneath those piles of objects.

Rewarding because of the variety of new discoveries and the skills that are learned, along with the satisfying feeling of getting things done.

The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. This 4 week course helps you to get a grip on your unmanaged collection by developing a plan to tackle it, defining achievable goals by creating logical exits and finding ways to keep the project going even if you are limited in time, staff and money.

For more information visit our website:

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Building A Stronger Organization Through Advocacy online course begins Feb 6 on MuseumStudy.com Advocacy involves communicating with broad constituencies, including elected officials, about what your museum does and why it is important.

Too often museums relegate advocacy to the back burner because they don't see the value in devoting time to advocacy. Advocacy needs to be an ongoing responsibility of everyone who cares about museums - staff, board members, volunteers, constituents, and the many people who value museums.  Making advocacy a part of ongoing operations can help build a stronger institution. Advocacy should be embraced as a best practice of museums.

This course is intended for anyone interested in building support for your organization and being prepared in case of a proposed policy or action that could harm your institution.  The course will help to dispel the myth that non-profits can't engage in advocacy. Participants will learn how to become more comfortable with advocacy and ways to incorporate advocacy into ongoing operations.

For more information visit our website:

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Materials for Exhibit, Moving and Storage course begins March 6 on MuseumStudy.com Are you using the best materials with your collections? What exactly does "archival" mean? How do you know the material you are using is acceptable? Join Science Museum of Minnesota Conservator Rebecca Newberry for this 4 week course. You will learn what materials are safe for exhibiting, moving, and storing collections.  You will create a customized handbook of good materials and plan for an exhibit, moving, or storage project by identifying vendors and materials.

For more information visit our website:

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Evaluating Interpretive Exhibits course begins Mar 6 on MuseumStudy.com Exhibits are one of the most expensive of interpretive media we use, and yet one of the media that we often really don't know if "it works".  We judge exhibits by their appearance rather than by their success in accomplishing meaningful objectives. We like to ask -if you spend

$10,000 on your exhibits, how will you determine if you're receiving

$10,000 in benefits from those exhibits?  That's usually when we get the "deer in the headlights" stare.

Join professional interpreter John Ververka for this 4 week online course. It is the goal of this course to give you some simple tools for doing evaluations of, or critiquing exhibits. Some tools for critiquing existing exhibits - to see if they are accomplishing their objectives and may be in need of rehabilitation, and some for pre-post testing evaluation of exhibits first being designed to see if they are accomplishing their objectives prior to final construction so they can be "fixed" to be more effective.

For more information visit our website:

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