Online class on museum microclimates

MS242: Museum Microclimates
Dates: July 5-30, 2010
Price: $475
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
Location: <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

    Description: A microclimate is the environment immediately
    surrounding an artifact. Microclimates designed for optimum
    storage, display, or treatment conditions can be created and
    maintained in showcases, storage cabinets, rooms, or plastic
    bags. This course covers the basics of creating and maintaining
    microclimates, including discussions of suitable enclosures and
    appropriate means of controlling humidity, temperature,
    pollution, and oxygen. Learn what constitutes a microclimate,
    how to use silica gel and other environmental control materials,
    how to reduce internally generated pollutants, and techniques
    for monitoring the microclimate you have created.

Course Outline:

    Introduction to Microclimates and History of Microclimates
    Components of a Microclimate
    Microclimate Enclosures
    Passive Environmental Controls
    Active Environmental Controls, Pollution, Case Leakage
    Monitoring a Microclimate

Logistics: Participants in Museum Microclimates work through
sections on their own. Materials and resources include online
literature, slide lectures and dialog between students and the
instructor through online forums. Museum Microclimates runs four
weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at
<URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html>

If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten
<helen<-at->collectioncare<.>org>

The Instructor:

    Jerry Shiner has been providing consultant services for
    environmental control of museum display and storage applications
    for almost twenty years. Mr. Shiner has extensive expertise in
    both active and passive methods of mitigating and controlling
    humidity, temperature, pollution, and oxygen levels for display
    and storage enclosures. His experience includes working with
    architects, engineers, and conservators to design both local and
    central systems for large museums. As founder of Keepsafe
    Microclimate Systems he has provided hundreds of active and
    passive solutions for low oxygen treatment and storage (anoxia),
    and showcase humidity and temperature control. Mr. Shiner is
    author of numerous articles on microclimate storage and display.
    His clients include museums in the US and Europe.


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