It is hard to believe we are coming to the end of the year. Our final online professional development courses of 2020 begin November 2.
Decolonizing Museums in Practice
Articles about decolonizing museums are everywhere these days, but what does this actually mean in practice for museum professionals working in what is now known as North America?
Join Laura Phillips for this new course where we will focus on looking critically at how museum professionals can activate decolonial ways of thinking in their own work environment, and in their day to day life.
We will investigate how the words of contemporary Indigenous scholars and curators can be put into practice to promote practices that de-centre the subtle (and not so subtle) colonial ways of thinking that surround us every day across this land.This course just ran for the first time and was so popular the participants did not want it to end.
For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/decolonizing-museums-in-practice/
Integrated Pest Management: The Plan and Implementation online
So you are familiar with Integrated Pest Management, but you never got around to writing a plan to carry it out. Here is the course for you!
A written plan formalizes the IPM strategy and keeps management abreast of your status. It organizes your ideas and lays the groundwork for the needs of the collection and the building(s). It provides the direction in which you want to take the program, including grant funding and accreditation.
Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for this four week online course in which participants will learn how to apply IPM principles to their specific situation and institution. A draft plan and specific implementation strategies will be developed and discussed. Even though our institutions have different challenges the exchange of ideas presents the opportunity for us to help each other brainstorm solutions that will work for our situation.
For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/integrated-pest-management-the-plan-implementation/
How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Panels
Ever wanted to know how to tell stories and construct effective exhibition labels? If so, this course is for you. We will focus on providing you with tips on how to research, develop, and structure content. Plus, how to transform your story into effective exhibition panels and labels. As we delve into all stages of the process, strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of content development. Participants will be encouraged to generate and refine their own ideas for content and exhibition label development that fits their respective institutions. Join Saul Sopoci Drake for the 4 week online course How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Panels.
For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/how-to-tell-stories-and-construct-effective-exhibition-panels/
Advanced Interpretive Techniques
Join Professor John Veverka for the 4 week online course Advanced Interpretive Techniques - Interpreting the "rest of the story". Interpreting “the rest of the story”, a powerful Interpretive communications technique for revealing and releasing the “rest of the stories” hidden in artifacts, objects, historical figures/events, landscapes, or sites through both live presentations and interpretive media text and label copy. This course will help you utilize and blend the Paul Harvey Rest of the Story format with Tilden’s Interpretive Principles. An interpretive technique marriage you can embrace and use throughout your interpretive career.
For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/advanced-interpretive-techniques-interpreting-the-rest-of-the-story/
Let us know if you have any questions.