Online classes at Northern States Conservation Center

March 2016 Online Courses
(beginning March 7, 2016)

MS 008: Buy In: Getting All of Staff to Support Preservation
March 7 - 11, 2016

    Instructor:  Helen Alten
    Location: <URL:http://museumclasses.org>

    Description: To get anything done in your museum, you often need
    to get other staff to support the idea.  All too often,
    preservation is left to one or two staff members and others
    believe it doesn't apply to them.  For example, it is hard to
    successfully implement a pest management plan without full staff
    support.  Everyone must buy into the notion of preservation.
    But how?  Readings will introduce some ideas and participants in
    this course will brainstorm with Helen about what works, what
    might work--and what doesn't.

    For more information or to sign up:
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/buy-getting-all-staff-support-preservation-line-short-course>

MS 108: Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs
March 7 - April 1, 2016

    Instructor:  Karin Hostetter
    Location: <URL:http://museumclasses.org>

    Description: Volunteers are essential for most non-profit
    institutions.  But good volunteers aren't born--they are made.
    Even though they don't get paychecks, it takes time and money to
    have effective volunteers.  Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer
    Programs teaches the basics of a strong volunteer program.
    Topics include recruiting, training and rewarding volunteers, as
    well as preparing staff.  Instruction continues through firing
    and liabilities.  Participants will end up with sound
    foundational knowledge for starting a new or strengthening an
    existing volunteer program based on a nine-step process.

    For more information or to sign up:
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/fundamentals-museum-volunteer-programs-line-course>

MS 109: Museum Management
March 7 - April 8, 2016

    Instructor: Sue Near

    Location: <URL:http://museumclasses.org>

    Description: Sound business practices are critical for a museum
    to fulfill its mission.  Sounds like vegetables, right?  Museum
    management is complex.  A museum exists to preserve collections
    and educate, but it is also an institution that must employ
    sound business practices while being accountable to the public
    as a non-profit organization.  Instructor Sue ear teaches
    participants how to administer a successful museum efficiently
    and effectively.  Participants will engage in discussions about
    the changing cultural climate and its effect on museum
    operations.

    For more information or to sign up:
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/museum-management-line-course>

MS 213: Museum Artifacts: How they were made and how they
    deteriorate
March 7 - April 15, 2016

    Instructor:  Helen Alten
    Location: <URL:http://museumclasses.org>

    Description: Every museum object is unique, but items made of
    similar materials share characteristics.  Museum Artifacts gives
    participants an understanding of the materials and processes
    used to make objects - knowledge that better prepares them to
    decide how to care for their collections.  Participants study
    two objects that represent all materials found in our museums.
    Through an in-depth analysis of their components, participants
    explore all possible objects found in any museum.

    For more information or to sign up:
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/museum-artifacts-how-they-were-made-and-how-they-deteriorate-line-course>

MS 215: Care of Archaeological Artifacts from the Field to the Lab
March 7 - April 1, 2016

    Instructor:  Diana Komejan

    Location: <URL:http://museumclasses.org>

    Description: Archaeological finds come out of the ground
    fragile--and they often stay that way.  Yet archaeologists and
    museum professionals have few clear guidelines for handling,
    moving, storing and displaying such materials.  Participants in
    Care of Archaeological Artifacts From the Field to the Lab learn
    techniques for safely lifting and packing artifacts, safe
    transportation and temporary and permanent storage.  The course
    also covers a broad range of excavation environments, including
    the Arctic, wet sites, tropical and temperate.  Though Care of
    Archaeological Artifacts is not intended to train archaeological
    conservators, it is designed to help participants understand
    what can and can't be done to save the artifacts they unearth.

    For more information or to sign up:
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/care-archaeological-artifacts-field-lab-line-course>

Feel free to contact me with questions.

Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center


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