February 2018 #OHMuseumChat Resources – Collections Care on a Budget

The Ohio Museums Association (@OhioMuseums) held our February ‪#‎OHMuseumChat - Thursday, February 15 on Twitter. Thank you to all the individuals and organizations that participated in this conversation!

For February's topic we discussed Collections Care on a Budget.

Have questions you didn't have a chance to ask during the chat?

• American Alliance of Museums
  • General collections care resources from AAM
    http://www.aam-us.org/search-results?indexCatalogue=public-search-index&searchQuery=collections+care&wordsMode=0
  • Museum Assessment Program
    http://www.aam-us.org/resources/assessment-programs/MAP
• American Association for State and Local History
  • StEPs Program
    http://tools.aaslh.org/steps/
  • General collections care resources from AASLH
    http://search.aaslh.org/search?q=collections+care&page=1
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
  • General resources from AIC
    http://www.conservation-us.org/resources#.Wo8Fk4PwbIU
  • Conservation Assessment Program
    http://www.conservation-us.org/grants/cap
• Connecting to Collections Care Online Community
  • Resources and upcoming professional development from C2C Care
    https://www.connectingtocollections.org/
• Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
  • Professional Development opportunities from CCAHA
    http://www.ccaha.org/education/program-calendar
• ICA-Art Conservation
  • Resources and education opportunities from ICA
    http://www.ica-artconservation.org/
• Library of Congress
  • General collections care resources from the Library of Congress
    https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=collections+care&new=true&st=
• Ohio Connecting to Collections
  • Resources from Ohio’s Connecting to Collections partnership.
    https://library.ohio.gov/services-for-libraries/library-programs-development/connecting-to-collections/
• Ohio History Fund
  • Grant opportunity for history-related projects.
    https://www.ohiohistory.org/historyfund
• Ohio Preservation Council
  • Resources and education opportunities from OPC
    http://opc.ohionet.org/opcjoomla/resources
• Preservation Self-Assessment Program
  • Resources for the preservation/care of different collections from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide
• Saving Your Treasures
  • A website about what you can do to protect and preserve the things of importance in your life.
    http://netnebraska.org/basic-page/television/saving-your-treasures
• Smithsonian Institution
  • Collections Care
    https://www.si.edu/content/opanda/docs/Rpts2005/05.04.ConcernAtTheCore.Care.pdf
• Sustaining Places
  • General collections care resources for small museums and historic sites
    https://sustainingplaces.com/collections-2/collections-care/
• U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Interior Museum Program training opportunities
    https://www.doi.gov/museum/training

Thanks again for a fantastic February chat! We hope you can join us for our March #‎OHMuseumChat,  Thursday, March 15 as we discuss "International Museums Day 2018."
Have a great topic for an upcoming chat? Drop us a line at [email protected] or tweet @OhioMuseums and let us know!