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Training
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Online Museum Classes
Description:
Is your collection stacked, packed and stressed? Museum Storage Techniques has the solution. The course builds on MS 202 and emphasizes the needs of individual objects and collection groupings. Guidelines for specific materials are covered as well. Participants learn about storage materials and mounts and the most effective use of trays, drawers, shelves and cabinets.
Course Outline:
1. Preparing Collections for Storage
2. Storage Materials
3. Storage Mounts
4. Storage of Specific Collections
5. Conclusion
Logistics:
Museum Storage Techniques participants work at their own pace through five sections and interact through online forums and chats. Instructor Helen Alten is available at scheduled times for email support. Materials include PowerPoint lectures, literature and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites. The course is limited to 20 participants.
Museum Storage Techniques runs four weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
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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 as a pre-program intern 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. She has built and run conservation laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker, maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs, and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma. 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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