Here are the upcoming courses on Museum Study for February an March.
Grants for Museums and Historic Sites course begins Feb 6 on
MuseumStudy.com
Identifying and winning grants from foundations and governments is a mix
of art and science. Join Instructor Sarah Sutton author of Is Your
Museum Grant-Ready? for this 4 week long online course, which is
designed for professionals either learning or reviewing their skills in
raising money through grants. Philanthropy keeps changing, and so does
grantmaking. Everyone on the team must contribute to raising money to do
good work; those with grant-preparation skills are very valuable to the
institution.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/grants-for-museums-and-historic-sites/
Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections 4 week online course begins
Feb 6 on MuseumStudy.com
Join instructor Angela Kipp for the 4 week online course Managing
Previously Unmanaged Collections. Working with a previously unmanaged
collection is one of the most challenging and rewarding projects in the
career of a museum professional. Challenging because of the variety of
issues like leaking roofs, missing documentation and the question as to
whether there is actually a floor underneath those piles of objects.
Rewarding because of the variety of new discoveries and the skills that
are learned, along with the satisfying feeling of getting things done.
The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs
the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project
manager. This 4 week course helps you to get a grip on your unmanaged
collection by developing a plan to tackle it, defining achievable goals
by creating logical exits and finding ways to keep the project going
even if you are limited in time, staff and money.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/managing-previously-unmanaged-collections/
Building A Stronger Organization Through Advocacy online course begins
Feb 6 on MuseumStudy.com
Advocacy involves communicating with broad constituencies, including
elected officials, about what your museum does and why it is important.
Too often museums relegate advocacy to the back burner because they
don’t see the value in devoting time to advocacy. Advocacy needs to be
an ongoing responsibility of everyone who cares about museums – staff,
board members, volunteers, constituents, and the many people who value
museums. Making advocacy a part of ongoing operations can help build a
stronger institution. Advocacy should be embraced as a best practice of
museums.
This course is intended for anyone interested in building support for
your organization and being prepared in case of a proposed policy or
action that could harm your institution. The course will help to dispel
the myth that non-profits can’t engage in advocacy. Participants will
learn how to become more comfortable with advocacy and ways to
incorporate advocacy into ongoing operations.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/building-a-stronger-organization-through-advocacy/
Materials for Exhibit, Moving and Storage course begins March 6 on
MuseumStudy.com
Are you using the best materials with your collections? What exactly
does “archival” mean? How do you know the material you are using is
acceptable? Join Science Museum of Minnesota Conservator Rebecca
Newberry for this 4 week course. You will learn what materials are safe
for exhibiting, moving, and storing collections. You will create a
customized handbook of good materials and plan for an exhibit, moving,
or storage project by identifying vendors and materials.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/materials-for-exhibit-moving-and-storage/
Evaluating Interpretive Exhibits course begins Mar 6 on MuseumStudy.com
Exhibits are one of the most expensive of interpretive media we use, and
yet one of the media that we often really don't know if "it works". We
judge exhibits by their appearance rather than by their success in
accomplishing meaningful objectives. We like to ask -if you spend
$10,000 on your exhibits, how will you determine if you're receiving
$10,000 in benefits from those exhibits? That's usually when we get the
"deer in the headlights" stare.
Join professional interpreter John Ververka for this 4 week online
course. It is the goal of this course to give you some simple tools for
doing evaluations of, or critiquing exhibits. Some tools for critiquing
existing exhibits - to see if they are accomplishing their objectives
and may be in need of rehabilitation, and some for pre-post testing
evaluation of exhibits first being designed to see if they are
accomplishing their objectives prior to final construction so they can
be "fixed" to be more effective.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/evaluating-interpretive-exhibits/
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