Online course on museum storage

MS201: Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage Principles
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $475
July 5 - Aug 12, 2011
Location: online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

Description: 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

Logistics: Participants in Storage for Infinity work at their own
pace through 11 sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at
scheduled times during the course for email support. Materials
include PowerPoint lectures, reading materials and lecture notes.
Supporting resources include message forums, weekly online chats
projects, quizzes and links to relevant web sites. The course is
limited to 20 participants.

Storage for Infinity runs six 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 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 in 1980
    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
    in 1986. 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, and
    advised on storage upgrades at museums throughout the US. 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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