Four courses are starting in July including our very popular Decolonizing Museums in Practice course which has just 2 spots available and our new Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums course.
Decolonizing Museums in Practice course begins July 5
Articles
about decolonizing museums are everywhere these days, but what does
this actually mean in practice for museum professionals?
Join Laura
Phillips, Heather George, and
Nathan Sentance for this 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.
The text book can take a while to arrive so make sure to order
it well in advance if you can not find it locally. This course fills
early, but runs multiple times a year.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/decolonizing-museums-in-practice
Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums course begins July 5 (NEW COURSE)
Join us for this new course born out of the challenges we all encountered this last year.
Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums
will cover creating both synchronous and asynchronous programs,
connecting with teachers, and some technical skills to ensure that you
can support teachers and students virtually as they learn from you and
your museum. By the end of the course, participants
will have built several different virtual education programs that
will be ready to use.
Participants will create at least 3 different
virtual museum education program and learn to use technology tools and
build skills to help them develop additional
virtual learning opportunities.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/creating-virtual-learning-opportunities-in-museums
Keeping Historic Houses & Museums Clean course begins July 5
An unkempt museum or historic house is not appealing to the visitor nor
is it healthy for the staff and collection. In this 4 week online
professional development course
instructor Gretchen Anderson will lay a foundation as to how to
clean objects and facilities safely. We will explore a variety of
subjects, including health and safety for the staff and the objects,
cleaning methods for a large variety of collection
types common in art & cultural institutions and the importance
of documenting what you do.
One former participant said, "This class
was so helpful! This was such a great resource! For the first time
since I started working here, my staff really
seems to understand why I ask them to do what we do. It has really
been the start of some great conversations on site and we will 100% use
the techniques learned."
Cleaning and sterilizing the museum is in
the news these days. Once we get back
in to our museums and historic houses we will need to be extra
careful. Please join us for this timely class to look at methods to
protect both the collection and your visitors.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/keeping-historic-houses-and-museums-clean
Policies for Managing Collections course begins July 5
Join instructor John Simmons author of Things Great and Small:
Collections Management Policies for the course Policies for Managing
Collections. Participants in the course can purchase the Second Edition
of the book at a discount. In this course we will critically examine the
purposes and functions of collections management policies, including
how collections are defined, acquired, managed, used, maintained, and
deaccessioned.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/policies-for-managing-collections