Here are the courses that will be running at Museum Study in July 2025
Integrated Pest Management: The Plan and Implementation online course begins June 30
You are familiar with Integrated Pest Management and have been using it,
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 Retired 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: https://www.museumstudy.com/integrated-pest-management-plan
Policies for Managing Collections 4 week online course begins June 30
Museums today are faced with many new and unexpected challenges,
including climate change, developing sustainable practices in collection
care, preservation of digital information, decolonization and
repatriation, changing environmental parameters for collection storage,
and strategies for coping with ever-larger collections with shrinking
budgets. In his May 2024 webinar, John E. Simmons discussed how good
collection management policies can help museums address these issues and
other topics in the new, revised third edition of Things Great and
Small: Collection Management Policies.
Join instructor John Simmons for the 4 week long course Policies for
Managing Collections. 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.
Learn how to write collections management policies for your own
institution and how to evaluate the effectiveness of your policies.
Participants can purchase the Third Edition of the book at a discount.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/policies-for-managing-collections
Creating Virtual Learning Opportunities in Museums course begins June 30
Join Hillary Hanel Rose for this virtual professional development course
born out of the challenges we all encountered to deliver virtual
learning experiences when we had to close to the public.
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.
Participants will create at least 3 different virtual museum education
programs and learn to use technology tools and build skills to help them
develop additional virtual learning opportunities.
If you missed the webinar Hillary gave Don't Reinvent the Wheel: Using
SAMR to Create Virtual Programs Inspired by your In-Person Programs you
can watch it on our YouTube Channel. The link is on the course page.
Hillary goes into greater depth about the SAMR Model (Substitution,
Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) in week one of the course.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/creating-virtual-learning-opportunities-in-museums