Online class on museum microclimates

MS242: Museum Microclimates
Instructor: Jerry Shiner
July 1-26, 2013
Location: Online at <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.

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 learn more about the
course, please go to
<URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms242.html>
If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at
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.  When not
    working on microclimates, Mr. Shiner can bang out a passable
    version of "Lady of Spain" on the accordion.  For more in
    formation visit his web site KEEPSAFE

Helen Alten
Director
Northern States Conservation Center


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