Upcoming Workshops
In Person Guidelines for Cleaning: Focus on Decorative Arts and Historic House Collections
Thursday, April 17th / 10:30 am – 5 pm and Friday, April 18th / 9:30 am – 4 pm
Beltrami County Historical Society, Bemidji, MN
Nicole Grabow, Director of Preventive Conservation, and Olivia Thanadabout, Preventive Conservation Educator
This two day in-person workshop is offered at the Beltrami County Historical Society in Bemidji, MN. The workshop will discuss the ethics, hazards, and benefits of cleaning cultural heritage items from a variety of different material types. With a mixture of lecture and hands-on practical exercises, the workshop will include conservation techniques for cleaning textiles, picture frames, ceramics, glass, silver, and iron artifacts.
Fee: $400 Register Here
Fee for Minnesota Residents: FREE Register Here
Thanks to funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
ONLINE Writing Grants for Conservation and Preservation Projects
Tuesday, April 29th / 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Colin Turner, MACC Executive Director
Prepare for federal, state, regional, and local grant application opportunities. This workshop will introduce essential grant writing strategies to gain funding for preservation and conservation related projects such as: obtaining supplies and materials for the basic re-housing of collections, buying storage upgrades, getting monitoring equipment, receiving a general preservation needs assessment survey, providing staff trainings, and having conservation treatments performed on your art and artifacts.
Fee: $75 Register Here
Fee for Minnesota Residents: FREE Register Here
In Person Safe Storage: Making Boxes and Mounts for Collections
This 2-day workshop will introduce a variety of stable and inert materials for use in collection storage and display. We will discuss storage enclosures and their benefits for physical protection as well as environmental buffering, air quality, air circulation, and common sources of pollution in storage areas. Working from a provided template, you will learn basic box-making skills by creating your own tool storage box, and then expand on those skills to create a custom box and support for either an example collection item from the host site, or an item you bring with you. All materials will be provided and you will leave with a starter set of box-making tools.
The workshop will be held at three different locations – register now or check back as our dates for Ely are finalized!
May 20 – 21 at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, MN
June 10 – 11 at Prairie Island Indian Community in Welch, MN
Dates TBD at Listening Point Foundation in Ely, MN
Fee: $400 Register Here
Fee for Minnesota Residents: FREE Register Here
Thanks to funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
On-Demand Workshops
These one-day events can be brought directly to your institution. Contact us for more details and pricing.
Emergency Preparedness
Emergency Response: Wet Salvage
Describing What You See: Condition Reports
Art and Artifact Handling (1/2 day)
Testing for Arsenic in Collections
Museum Environments 101
Coming Soon
Check back for dates and registration!