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MS244: Traveling Exhibitions (Run once a year)
              Course Description & Info     Instructor: Lin Nelson-Mayson
              Student Login    Price: $475.00
              Aug 5 - Aug 30, 2013     [Add to Cart]   [View Cart]



Description:
Sharing an exciting exhibition with other museums expands your museum's reach and impact. When and how do you plan for this undertaking? How do you manage the exhibition once it has left your facility? How do you ensure a successful exhibition at each venue? Your questions - the more the better - facilitate successful exhibition development and touring. Traveling exhibits, though, are a two-way street. Sometimes you are the lender, sometimes you are the borrower. How do you find and manage interesting exhibits created by other institutions in order to expand your museum's offerings? In this online course, learn how to find interesting exhibits developed by other museums and plan for your exhibition from idea to on the road - and beyond!

Course Outline:
  1. Museums and exhibitions
  2. Planning for travel
  3. Supplementary needs
    • Curatorial
    • Public Relations
    • Registration and installation
    • Programming
  4. Management of the tour
  5. Sources for travelling exhibitions


Logistics:
Participants in Traveling Exhibitions work through sections on their own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog between students and the instructor through online forums.

Traveling Exhibitions 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:
Lin Nelson-Mayson, with over 25 years of museum experience at small and large institutions, is director of the University of Minnesota's Goldstein Museum of Design. Prior to that, she was the director of ExhibitsUSA, a nonprofit exhibition touring organization that annually tours over 30 art and humanities exhibitions across the country. For five years, she was a coordinator or judge for the American Association of Museums' Excellence in Exhibitions Competition. She currently serves on the exhibition committee for the National Sculpture Society. Ms. Nelson-Mayson has extensive experience with the planning, preparation, research and installation of exhibitions. Ms Nelson-Mayson's experience includes teaching museum studies and museology courses. Her particular interest is the needs of small museums.


Her credentials include the following;

  • An MFA from The Ohio State University in sculpture and critical writing
  • A BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in painting.
  • Work as a curator for the Ross County Historic Society (Chillicothe, Ohio), the Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), the Columbia Museum of Art (South Carolina), and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.





MS244: Traveling Exhibitions (Run once a year)
              Course Description & Info     Instructor: Lin Nelson-Mayson
              Student Login    Price: $475.00
              Aug 5 - Aug 30, 2013     [Add to Cart]   [View Cart]








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