Online course on facilities

MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Helen Alten
July 11 - August 5, 2005
Price: $350

The Northern States Conservation Center
<URL:http://www.collectioncare.org> announces the up-dated course:
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture at
<URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>.  This course concentrates on
building systems and furniture as they relate to storage and
protection of the collection.  Environmental controls, insulation,
floor coatings, and predicting space requirements are covered.  Then
the course covers the types of storage furniture you might choose
for your new facility.  Commercially available furniture and
home-made furniture are discussed. This course provides the
blueprint for how to approach architects and engineers as well as
redesigning your facility yourself.  Starting with the philosophy of
storage, the course covers construction requirements, security, fire
and water prevention, types of furniture, and how to plan for
collections growth.  A new unit details how commercial museum
quality storage cabinetry is constructed.  Blueprints are provided
for high-quality, home-made cabinets.

The course format is self-paced through 5 sections. The instructor
will be available Monday, Wednesday and Friday by e-mail, and for
course at predetermined intervals throughout the course. Students
will be working individually and interact through forums and
scheduled on-line chats. Materials include web versions of reading
materials and lecture notes. Supporting resources include message
forums, weekly online chats, email support, projects, quizzes, and
links to relevant websites.

The course will last for four weeks and cover all the details needed
to plan storage expansions or improvements. (It does not include
improvements  such as mounts to individual artifacts.) This course
will include handouts, on-line literature, slide lectures, and
student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20
participants.

If you are interested in the course, please sign up at
<URL:http://www.museumclasses.org> and pay for the course at
<URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html>.  If you have
trouble with either, please contact Helen Alten
<helen<-a t->collectioncare< . >org>.


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