Online course on hazardous materials

Is your collection dangerous to your health? Join Dr. Nancy Odegaard
for our new course Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in
Collections and learn what potential hazards may lurk in your
collection.

MS 255: Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Collections
Instructor: Nancy Odegaard
Price: $475
Oct 3-28, 2011

Description: Many museum collections were treated with pesticides to
preserve them. Often there are no records and staff is unaware of
what might be on the collection or how it may affect researchers.
This class is designed for museum curators and others who work with
Native American and ethnographic collections. It details methods to
mitigate hazards from chemicals and pesticides and health issues
stemming from their use on artifacts.

Logistics: Participants in Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in
Collections work through sections on their own. Materials and
resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog
between students and the instructor through online forums. The
course is limited to 20 participants.

Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Collections runs four
weeks. If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at
helen<-a t->collectioncare< . >org

The Instructor:

    Dr. Nancy Odegaard is the Conservator and Head of the
    Preservation Division for Arizona State Museum. She is also a
    Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Nancy manages and
    supervises staff and programs in the conservation lab, advises
    on museum environmental issues, and seeks to promote the
    preservation of collections through improved exhibition and
    storage conditions. Nancy holds a Ph.D. in Applied Science
    through the Conservation and Cultural Heritage Science Studies
    Department of the University of Canberra, Australia. She earned
    her M.A. in Museum Studies/Anthropology at the George Washington
    University with a Certificate in Ethnographic and Archaeological
    Conservation from the Smithsonian Institution. Nancy specializes
    in the conservation of archaeological and ethnographic objects
    including the examination, analysis, and study of materials and
    pre-industrial technologies used to fabricate artifacts. She is
    the author of the 2005 publication Old Poisons, New Problems
    about pesticides on Native museum objects.

Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center


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