Museum Study is best known for providing online professional development courses, which we have been doing since 2015. Did you know that we also can host online professional development for your institution or association?

For seven years Museum Study hosted online courses for the American Association for State and Local History until the program grew so large that it was brought in house. You do not need to be a large Association to work with us to develop online professional development for your staff or membership, we can work with any size group to develop a course or program.

If you are not planning to run the same course repeatedly, but instead want to do a one-time professional development Museum Study can work with you to develop a Virtual Workshop. A Virtual Workshop is much like an online course in that it uses our learning management system and Zoom to bring the participants and instructor together to share experience, disseminate knowledge, and answer questions, but the Virtual Workshop is customized for your group’s specialized needs and employs more face to face time on Zoom.

Museum Study also has free resources including two free courses, our new Webinar series, the Monopolicy board game from John Simmons, and of course this Blog.

Our first free course Cultural Institution Crisis Response was developed during the COVID shutdown to provide institutions with guidance on how to handle everything from closing to maintaining operations while closed to reopening.

Our second free course debuted in July 2022, Introduction to the Agents of Deterioration is a fundamental building block of collection preservation. You can start this self-paced free course any time and proceed at your own pace. In the last 13 months more than 200 people from across the globe have accessed this course.

Our webinars may be an introduction to a course topic, or a deep dive in to one of many topics covered in our courses. The webinars will give you a taste of what our courses are about and an opportunity to ask questions.

Our next webinar Risk-based approaches to preventive conservation: Which to choose for my situation? will be September 12, 2023 presented by Robert Waller of Protect Heritage Corp.

Find information about upcoming webinars here: https://www.museumstudy.com/webinars

You can view past webinars on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/museumstudy

The Monopolicy board game is based on the book, Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (second edition, 2017) from John Simmons. The Monopolicy game is free to download and use to foster discussions of collection management policies in your institution. Monopolicy is available in English and Spanish https://www.museumstudy.com/monopolicy

If you use the game, please send John Simmons JohnSimmons@MuseumStudy.com an email and let him know how it worked for you.

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