We have a busy end of year coming at Museum Study. There are five online courses slated for October and two for November. Here are the five October courses that all begin on October 5.
Cultural Competency
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
How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Panels
Ever wanted to know how to tell stories and construct effective exhibition panels? 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: https://www.museumstudy.com/how-to-tell-stories-and-create-effective-exhibition-panels
Managing Museum Volunteers
The Managing Museum Volunteers course will focus on strategies for running a successful volunteer program that adapts to the needs of the museum. Appropriate for professionals starting a new volunteer program or wanting to reinvigorate an existing one, this course will include topics such as: assessing the museum’s needs for volunteers; managing the recruitment, selection, onboarding, training, and evaluating of volunteers; and troubleshooting problems with volunteers. We will also consider some of the ways that volunteerism is changing overall and how those changes might affect museums.
Join Instructor Tara Young for this 4 week online professional development course.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/managing-museum-volunteers
Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 1
Assessing risks to cultural property, including but not limited to Museum, Library, and Archive collections, is becoming a fundamental ability for collection care professionals. Join instructors Robert Waller and Moya Dumville for the first in a series of online courses on Risk to Cultural Property. This introductory course provides a firm foundation on which to build an understanding of risk-based approaches to cultural property protection.
Ideas associated with the terms hazard, risk, deterioration, damage, and loss are clarified. Tools are provided and practiced to ensure comprehensive sets of well defined risks can be developed based on agents of change and types of risk.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/assessing-risk-to-cultural-property-1
Moving Museum Collections
Are you planning a remodel, new storage, or a new building and will need to move all or part of your collection? Don't wait until the last minute. Join Instructor Lori Benson, veteran of three large scale museum collection moves, for the 4 week online course Moving Museum Collections.
This course provides an overview of how to plan and manage a move to avoid the many pitfalls. The course will help you define the scope of your project, develop a work plan and schedule, prepare a communication scheme, define proposals for vendors, choose equipment, estimate costs, identify hazards, organize staffing, and establish packing techniques and standards. Whether you are moving across the hall or across town, Moving Museum Collections will provide a guide for a successful move.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/moving-museum-collections