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Register for our Summer 2024 C2C Care Webinars: July 9 - Choosing and Using Safe Materials for Collection Housing & August 20 - Safeguarding Collections

  • 1.  Register for our Summer 2024 C2C Care Webinars: July 9 - Choosing and Using Safe Materials for Collection Housing & August 20 - Safeguarding Collections

    Posted 06-25-2024 13:58
    Understanding how materials are assessed for suitability can help you make smart decisions about purchasing products. This webinar will review different testing methods used to vet materials for the storage, display, and transport of collection objects and how to understand the data the tests provide. Attendees will learn what it means when a material has passed an Oddy test, what kinds of test they can carry out themselves and where to find out if a material has been tested. Several easily available web resources that can help with storage organization, mount design and material choice will be introduced. 
    Presenter: Samantha Springer, Art Solutions Lab, Fellow and Professional Member of AIC
    Register here: https://connectingtocollections.org/choosingsafematerials/
    Has your cultural institution hosted late night events with food and drink? Filmed TV or movie productions? Or perhaps had a motorcycle drive through the building that exhibit or store collections. Safeguarding collections can be a difficult task and determining which risks should be prioritized for mitigation is never easy. Compounding this, it’s becoming more and more commonplace for museums to host myriad events or engage in novel promotional activities. But there are ways collections stewardships can advocate for the safety of our collections while maintaining access. Join this C2C Care program to delve deeper into the type of issues collection stewards and other museum professionals encounter as at small and mid-sized institutions when presented with this type of situation.
    Presenters: Warren Bunn, Senior Manager, Collections and Exhibitions, Corning Museum of Glass & 

    Moya Dumville, Paper Conservator and Risk Analysis Advisor, Protect Heritage & Professor of Conservation at the Fleming College Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management Program

    Register here: https://connectingtocollections.org/safeguarding_collections/



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    Robin Bauer Kilgo (she/her/hers)
    Connecting to Collections Care Coordinator, FAIC
    c2cc@culturalheritage.org
    Contract Registrar/Consultant
    rbkilgo@gmail.com
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