[Nhcoll-l] Online professional development from Museum Study for July 2025

[Brad Bredehoft]

Here are the online courses that will be running at Museum Study in July 2025

Integrated Pest Management: The Plan and Implementation online course begins June 30 on MuseumStudy.com
You are familiar with Integrated Pest Management and have been using it, but you never got around to writing a plan to carry it out. Here is the course for you!
A written plan formalizes the IPM strategy and keeps management abreast of your status. It organizes your ideas and lays the groundwork for the needs of the collection and the building(s). It provides the direction in which you want to take the program, including grant funding and accreditation.
Join Retired Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for this four week online course in which participants will learn how to apply IPM principles to their specific situation and institution. A draft plan and specific implementation strategies will be developed and discussed. Even though our institutions have different challenges the exchange of ideas presents the opportunity for us to help each other brainstorm solutions that will work for our situation.
For more information visit our website:
https://www.museumstudy.com/integrated-pest-management-plan

Policies for Managing Collections 4 week online course begins June 30 on MuseumStudy.com
Museums today are faced with many new and unexpected challenges, including climate change, developing sustainable practices in collection care, preservation of digital information, decolonization and repatriation, changing environmental parameters for collection storage, and strategies for coping with ever-larger collections with shrinking budgets. In his May 2024 webinar, John E. Simmons discussed how good collection management policies can help museums address these issues and other topics in the new, revised third edition of Things Great and
Small: Collection Management Policies.
Join instructor John Simmons for the 4 week long course Policies for Managing Collections. In this course we will critically examine the purposes and functions of collections management policies, including how collections are defined, acquired, managed, used, maintained, and deaccessioned.
Learn how to write collections management policies for your own institution and how to evaluate the effectiveness of your policies.
Participants can purchase the Third Edition of the book at a discount.
For more information visit our website:
https://www.museumstudy.com/policies-for-managing-collections

Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums course begins June 30 on MuseumStudy.com
Join Hillary Hanel Rose for this virtual professional development course born out of the challenges we all encountered to deliver virtual learning experiences when we had to close to the public.
Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums will cover creating both synchronous and asynchronous programs, connecting with teachers, and some technical skills to ensure that you can support teachers and students virtually as they learn from you and your museum.
Participants will create at least 3 different virtual museum education programs and learn to use technology tools and build skills to help them develop additional virtual learning opportunities.
If you missed the webinar Hillary gave Don't Reinvent the Wheel: Using SAMR to Create Virtual Programs Inspired by your In-Person Programs you can watch it on our YouTube Channel. The link is on the course page.
Hillary goes into greater depth about the SAMR Model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) in week one of the course.
For more information visit our website:
https://www.museumstudy.com/creating-virtual-learning-opportunities-in-museums

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Brad Bredehoft (he/him/his)
CEO
Museum Study, LLC
www.MuseumStudy.com