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Training
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Online Museum Classes
Description:
Little dirty feet in your museum? Join Gretchen to discuss preventing mice from entering your museum and causing damage. Topics include what works and what doesn't work. Discuss the dangers of hanta virus and lighter moments such as colleagues standing on chairs and shrieking or uninvited guests crashing your opening gala.
Logistics:
Participants in Building a Better Mousetrap will read literature before joining in a one-hour discussion of mouse control. Material will be sent the week before the chat, and each student should read it and prepare questions or comments to share with the other students in the chat.
This is a mini-course and takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time. It will be held once in 2007.
Please sign up at http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble with either, please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
The Instructor:
Gretchen Anderson, Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson learned her craft at the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical Lab, the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty Conservation Lab, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Minnesota Historical Society. She established the conservation department at the Science Museum of Minnesota in 1989. She is the co-author of A Holistic Approach to Museum Pest Management, a technical leaflet for the American Association for State and Local History and established a rigorous IPM program for the Science Museum. Ms. Anderson is a member of the American Institute for Conservation and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. She lectures and presents workshops on preventive conservation, IPM, and practical methods and materials for storage of collections.
Support for the course is provided by Bio-Integral Resource Center (BIRC) in Berkeley, California. BIRC is a nonprofit organization offering over 25 years of insight, experience and leadership in the development and communication of least-toxic, sustainable and environmentally sound Integrated Pest Management methods.
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