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Providing collection care, preservation and conservation treatment services to collectors and collecting institutions. |
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Online Museum Classes
Description: Every museum needs to be prepared for fires, floods, chemical spills, tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters. But surveys show 80 percent lack trained staff, emergency-preparedness plans for their collections, or both. Disaster Plan Research and Writing begins with the creation of disaster-preparedness teams, the importance of ongoing planning, employee safety, board participation and insurance. Participants will learn everything they need to draft their own disaster-preparedness plans. They also will be required to incorporate colleagues in team-building exercises. A written disaster-preparedness plan is not only a good idea, it's also a requirement for accreditation. In the second half of the course, instructor Terri Schindel reviews and provides input as participants write plans that outline the procedures to follow in various emergencies. The completed plan prepares museums physically and mentally to handle emergencies that can harm vulnerable and irreplaceable collections. You will have a completed institutional disaster-preparedness and response plan at the end of the course.
Course Outline:
Required Textbook: MS205/6: Disaster Plan Research and Writing lasts six weeks. Please sign up at http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble with either, please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
Student Comments for MS205/6 Disaster Plan Research and Writing: "The course exceeded my expectations … I am looking forward to developing a plan that will protect the collections. I really enjoyed the course and plan on taking additional courses in the future." - MS 205 Student "Terri was good at asking little questions about procedures that I had either overlooked or had not considered, and this got me moving in new directions." - MS 206 Student "To write the disaster preparedness and response plan, you need to set aside a significant amount of time and this class forced me to do that so I completed most of the plan. Hooray!" - MS 206 Student "A great motivator to get me to work on the disaster preparedness and response plan. I really appreciate Terri's time, knowledge, and flexibility." - MS 206 Student
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Training Available
|--On-line Collection Care Classes--|--Regional Lectures & Workshops--|
|--Site Visits--|--Video-Conferencing Workshops--|--Campbell Center Curriculum--|--Other--|
