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Northern States Conservation Center
Collections Caretaker eNewsletter
2026 Course Schedule Update
Welcome to the Collections Caretaker e-Newsletter from Northern States Conservation Center. the newsletter is designed to bring you content that is pertinent to situations we all encounter in our museum and archives work. Feel free to let us know what topics you would like to see featured in Collections Caretaker or even contribute and article.
March
MS002: Collection Protection - Are you Prepared? March 9 to 13, 2026
MS101: Introduction to Museums March 16 to April 10, 2026
MS104: Introduction to Collections Preservation March 9 to April 10, 2026
July
MS204 Materials for Storage and Display July 6 to 31, 2026
MS 207: Collections Management: Cataloging Your Collection July 6 to 31, 2026
MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives July 6 to August 14, 2026
MS 267: Museum Ethics July 6 to 31, 2026
MS253: Disaster Preparation and Recovery October 5 to 30, 2026
MS 262: Moving Collections October 5 to 30, 2026
Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation
Ever wonder how you can get the rest of your museum's staff to understand and support preservation of the collections? This short course is for you!
To get anything done in your museum, you often need to get other staff to support the idea. All too often, preservation is left to one or two staff members and others believe it doesn’t apply to them. For example, it is hard to successfully implement a pest management plan without full staff support. Everyone must buy into the notion of preservation. But how? Readings will introduce some ideas and participants in this course will brainstorm with your instructor about what works, what might work – and what doesn’t.
To find out more join Samantha Hunt-Duran for MS008 Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation starting February 2, 2026.
Collection Protection - Are you Prepared?
Does your museum have an Emergency Operation (Disaster) Plan? This course will get you started making a plan for your museum.
Disaster planning is overwhelming. Where do you start? Talk to Amanda about how to get going. Use the checklist to determine your level of preparedness. What do you already have in place? Are you somewhat prepared? What can you do next? Help clarify your current state of readiness and develop future steps to improve it.
Join Amanda Benson for MS002 Collection Protection - Are you Prepared? starting March 9, 2026 to learn more and begin writing your Emergency Operation Plan.
An Early Bird Discount is available for anyone who signs up for a full-length course from museumclasses.org 30 days prior to the start of that course.
Sign up for a full-length course up to 30 days prior to its start and save 20%!
For our course list or to sign up: http://www.collectioncare.org/course-list
To take advantage of this discount, you must enter coupon code EARLYBIRD at checkout at collectioncare.org
Early Bird Discount for February Courses is January 3, 2026
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