Caring for cultural heritage carries with it a responsibility to act ethically, maintain professional standards and stay current. Each skills development programme is tailored to meet the requirements of the participants and their institution. Programme elements include:
- Developmental – learning new or updating existing skills, (including the use of new technologies and resources)
- Specific – dealing with problems and finding solutions
- Practical – hands-on courses.
Please contact us to discuss your individual needs.
Handle with Care: Object Handling Course
This course introduces object handling in a museum environment and includes the following:
- Guidelines for handling objects within the museum
- Guidelines for moving objects within the museum
- Preparing the workspace
- Safe materials to use for packing and storing objects
- Packaging fragile objects, textiles, ephemera and photographs
- Risk assessment, health and safety guidelines
- Labelling and identification of packed museum objects
Preventative Conservation Course
Preventative conservation in the museum environment covers the following:
- How environmental conditions affect collections
- Monitoring and controlling light, temperature, relative humidity (RH) and pollutants
- Monitoring equipment
- Housekeeping and housekeeping equipment
- Pest management
- Handling, moving and storing objects
- Risk assessment, health and safety guidelines
Caring for Books
This course focuses on book collections and includes:
- General survey of collection, generation of reports and prioritisation of work
- Storage areas, storage containers and storage materials
- Labelling
- Dealing with non-standard materials (e.g. books with metal clasps)
- Rebinding or conserving?
- Dealing with pests, moulds, etc.
- Book supports