Online course on storage

MS201: Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage
    Principles
Instructor: Helen Alten
Jan 10 - Feb 18, 2011
Location: Online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

For more information:

    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/
        training/trol_classes_ms201.html>

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Storage for Infinity covers everything you need to know to limit
damage to stored collections. Participants will learn about building
new storage areas and retrofitting existing space. Other topics
include constructing support mounts and storage security. The
material emphasizes philosophy and planning, handling, materials and
techniques.

Course Outline:

    Introduction
    Storage Philosophy
    Agents of Deterioration and Preservation Planning
    Storage Facilities
    Storage Furniture
    Preparing Collections for Storage
    Storage Materials
    Storage Mounts
    Storage of Specific Collections
    Funding Improvements
    Conclusion

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 at helen<-a t->collectioncare< . >org

The Instructor:

    Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation
    Center and its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years
    she has been involved in objects conservation, starting as a
    pre-program intern at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and the
    University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. She
    completed a degree in Archaeological Conservation and Materials
    Science from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of
    London in England. She has built and run conservation
    laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska, Minnesota and
    West Virginia. She has a broad understanding of
    three-dimensional materials and their deterioration, wrote and
    edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker, maintains the
    popular <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org> web site, lectures
    throughout the United States on collection care topics, was
    instrumental in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster
    response in small Minnesota museums, has written, received and
    reviewed grants for NEH and IMLS, worked with local foundations
    funding one of her pilot programs, and is always in search of
    the perfect museum mannequin. She has published chapters on
    conservation and deterioration of archeological glass with the
    Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological Trust,
    four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in
    Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002),
    preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for
    a small museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History
    Museums' Collection Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the
    penultimate book on numbering museum collections (still in
    process) by the Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma. Helen Alten has
    been a Field Education Director, Conservator, and staff trainer.
    She began working with people from small, rural, and tribal
    museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska.
    Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a
    conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.


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