Cultural Competency online course begins November 4 on MuseumStudy.com
Creating organizations that are culturally competent is not an altruistic wish, but rather a business strategy to ensure our workforce reflects, represents, and is responsive to the communities with whom we collaborate and serve and perhaps more critically, how we shape our programs, exhibits, and collections. While cultural competency has long been incorporated into the medical disciplines and the fields of psychology and social work they have been slow to enter the cultural heritage professions.
Join Helen Wong Smith for this 4 week online course which provides the skills to employ cultural competency and the stages individuals and organizations can implement to improve relations with internal and external communities.
For more information about the course visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/cultural-competency
If you would like to learn more about Cultural Competency watch the recording of the webinar Beyond checking the EEO box: Cultural Competency, the first step in DEIA on our YouTube Channel
Preserving Heritage Collections course begins Nov 4 on MuseumStudy.com
Join us for the new online course Preserving Heritage Collections, which is the next step after our free course Introduction to the Agents of Deterioration.
Preserving Heritage Collections is the next step in collections care after our free Agents of Deterioration course. Conservator Gretchen Anderson will provide the strategy necessary to use knowledge of the Agents of Deterioration to preserve collections. Using the Canadian Conservation Institute’s Framework for Preservation we will develop strategies that we can actually implement with our available resources. We will also learn when a solution is beyond our ability and then it is time to call in a subject matter or skilled specialist. Discover what resources are available to help us with preservation including knowledge and funding. Learn how to weave more sustainable practices into our daily and long-term strategies. If you are not already familiar with preservation principles you should take this course before taking any other collection care subject. These principles are also applied in Collection Management and Facilities Management courses ranging from Integrated Pest Management to Keeping Historic Houses & Museums Clean to Emergency Preparedness and Assessing Risk to Cultural Property.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/preserving-heritage-collections