Subject: Online course on exhibitions
MS106: Exhibit Fundamentals: Ideas to Installation Instructor: Lin Nelson-Mayson Dates: March 31 through May 9, 2008 Cost: $425 Location: <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org> Nearly every museum develops exhibits, but how can we improve communication with visitors while taking care of our objects? Exhibit Fundamentals explores exhibits from idea to final installation in a variety of settings. Topics include exhibit theory, the role of the museum's mission, creating a timeline, accessibility and script writing. Also covered are design elements, installation techniques, object safety and security, visitor safety and evaluations. Each student develops an exhibit plan for his or her museum. Course Outline Introduction: Exhibition Theory and the Museums Mission Intellectual and Physical Accessibility and Exhibition Evaluations Creating a Timeline and Writing Texts The Role of Design Elements and Basic Installation Techniques Object and Visitor Safety Conclusion Logistics: Participants in Exhibit Fundamentals work at their own pace through six sections and interact through online chats. Instructor Lin Nelson-Mayson is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. Exhibit Fundamentals includes online literature, slide lectures and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20 participants. Required texts are: Lord, Barry and Gail Dexter. The Manual of Museum Exhibits. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (A Division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc), 2002. Serrell, Beverly. Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996. (Both are good resources; if you don't have them in your library, they can be ordered on line from Alta Mira at <URL:http://www.altamirapress.com/>) Exhibit Fundamentals runs six weeks. 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 completing an on-line order, please contact Helen Alten at helen<-a t->collectioncare< . >org or Eric Swanson at eric<-a t->collectioncare< . >org The Instructor: Lin Nelson-Mayson, with over 25 years of museum experience at small and large institutions, was recently the director of ExhibitsUSA, a nonprofit exhibition touring organization that annually tours over 30 art and humanities exhibitions across the country. For five years, she was a coordinator or judge for the American Association of Museums' Excellence in Exhibitions Competition. She currently serves on the exhibition committee for the National Sculpture Society. Ms. Nelson-Mayson has extensive experience with the planning, preparation, research and installation of exhibitions. Ms Nelson-Mayson's experience includes teaching museum studies and museology courses. Her particular interest is the needs of small museums. She is now the director of the Goldstein Gallery at the University of Minnesota. Her credentials include the following; An MFA from The Ohio State University in sculpture and critical writing A BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in painting Work as a curator for the Ross County Historic Society (Chillicothe, Ohio), the Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), the Columbia Museum of Art (South Carolina), and the Minnesota Museum of American Art *** Conservation DistList Instance 21:49 Distributed: Friday, March 14, 2008 Message Id: cdl-21-49-008 ***Received on Wednesday, 12 March, 2008