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MS242: Museum Microclimates
              Jul 5 - Jul 30, 2010
              Course Description & Info - Student Login
              Price: $475     [Add to Cart]   [View Cart]
              Instructor: Jerry Shiner



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.

Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Microclimates and History of Microclimates
2. Components of a Microclimate
3 Microclimate Enclosures
4. Passive Environmental Controls
5. Active Environmental Controls, Pollution, Case Leakage
6. Monitoring a Microclimate

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 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


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.




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