Online course on environment

MS211: Preservation Environments
Instructor:  Ernest A. Conrad
Price:  $475
November 1 through 30, 2010
Location:  online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

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    The museum's brick exterior wall is crumbling. The powder coated
    metal storage shelves have active rust under the foam padding.
    Objects in fur storage are covered in mold. It is raining in the
    exhibit hall. This is the damage that occurs to museum buildings
    or collections when staff do not understand preservation
    environments. Preservation Environments is essential knowledge
    for any collecting institution. The course covers climate
    control basics, monitoring and psychrometrics, water, and
    preservation today and tomorrow, including LEEDS.Everyone should
    understand how humidity and temperature are controlled by a
    building and its mechanical system. For museum staff considering
    a new building--and any institution planning to expand or
    rebuild an existing one - Preservation Environments provide
    important information for calculating whether the proposed
    improvements will actually improve the environmental control of
    your protective enclosure. Participants learn the advantages and
    disadvantages of numerous methods of temperature and relative
    humidity control. Preservation Environments does not try to turn
    museum professionals into engineers. Rather, it arms them with
    the knowledge they need to work with engineers and maintenance
    professionals. And helps explain why damage occurred and how to
    keep it from happening again.

 Logistics:  Preservation Environments runs four weeks. Participants
work at their own pace through six sections and interact through
online chats. Instructor Ernest Conrad is available at scheduled
times for email support. Preservation Environments includes online
literature, slide lectures and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog.

The Instructor:

    Ernest A. Conrad's  greatest contribution to the preservation
    field was the development of environmental guidelines for
    engineers who work on museums, libraries and archives. For over
    20 years, Mr. Conrad has focused on environmental issues. He is
    president of Landmark Facilities Group, Inc., an engineering
    firm specializing in environmental systems for museums,
    libraries, archives and historic facilities. A licensed
    mechanical engineer in several states, Mr. Conrad holds a
    bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's in
    environmental engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia,
    Pennsylvania. For more information visit his web site Landmark
    Facilities Group, Inc.

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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) publishes standards in the areas of HVAC
and refrigeration. Mr. Conrad  co-authored the ASHRAE Applications
Handbook "Chapter 20: Museums, Libraries and Archives." For the
first time, there are guidelines specific to our needs in the
engineering literature. Mr. Conrad has studied environments and
designed special climate control systems throughout the United
States for clients as well-known as the National Gallery of Art,
Library of Congress, The Frick Collection, Getty Conservation
Institute, The Pierpont Morgan Library, National Trust for Historic
Preservation, and National Park Service. He has a special interest
in house museums and how climate affects structures and collections
housed within those structures.

For more information and to sign up:

    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/
        training/trol_classes_ms211.html>


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