Welcome to Introduction to the Agents of Deterioration, a foundation course for collection care and preservation. If you are not already familiar with the Agents of Deterioration or would like to review them you should go through this course before taking any other collection care subject including Risk Assessment. These principles are also applied in Facilities Management courses ranging from Integrated Pest Management to Keeping Historic Houses & Museums Clean to Collections Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience.
This course will explore why collections deteriorate and look at specific every day examples.
This free course was developed by the entire Museum Study team to help cultural institutions through the current crisis by highlighting important resources we have found. We welcome your input to continue to grow and improve this course. Please use the Help us improve this free course forum to make suggestions about resources you think would be useful to this free course and suggestions you have about what to include or not include.
As you are strategizing how to shut down your facility consider also what you can do to serve your community in other ways. The Baltimore Museum of Industry in partnership with a local health provider is transforming a parking lot into a coronavirus testing site.
This course is an evolving tool to aide cultural institutions in ways to respond to large scale crisis that affects the ability to operate normally.
Gretchen Anderson
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Lori Benson
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Brad Bredehoft
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Angela Kipp
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Lin Nelson-Mayson
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Rebecca Newberry
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Laura Phillips
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Nathan Sentance
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John Simmons
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Saul Sopoci Drake
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Sarah Sutton
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John Veverka
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Robert Waller
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Tara Young
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