C2C Sustainability for Small and Mid-Sized Cultural Heritage Institutions

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Kathy Garrett-Cox

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Mar 20, 2025, 9:07:32 AMMar 20

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Sustainability initiatives are linked to cost-savings, reduced carbon footprints, improved community relationships, and future resilience, along with the opportunity to optimize the preservation of collections. Doing so can be critical for small and mid-sized institutions with substantially limited resources to survive and thrive going forward.

The learning objectives for this course include:

become familiar with the tools and resources available to implement sustainable practices specifically in the cultural heritage field
understand sustainability terms and practices, and how they can apply to collecting institutions
begin assessing current institutional practices through a sustainability lens and realize how to develop this practice into an actionable plan

Course Schedule

Webinar 1: Thursday March 27, 2025 1-230pm ET Green Terms and Tools
Presenter: Lorraine Finch, Director, LFCP

This introductory webinar will go over commonly used sustainability terms and metrics, and what resources are available to implement sustainable and resilient practices in the cultural heritage field.

Webinar 2: Tuesday April 1, 2025 1-230pm ET Examining current operations
Presenter: Christopher Dunbrack, Associate Building Manager for The Metropolitan Museum of Art- Cloisters

While focusing on identifying measures to reduce energy and carbon, this webinar will also explore ways of benchmarking and fundraising to support addressing these concerns.

Webinar 3: Thursday April 10, 2025 1-230pm ET Developing a Green Vision
Presenter: Patrick Hamilton, Manager, Climate & Sustainability Initiatives, Division of Mission Infrastructure, Science Museum of Minnesota

This webinar will present the Science Museum of Minnesota's approach to examining institutional practices through a sustainability lens as a case study, along with practical tips for other institutions learned from these experiences.

Webinar 4: Thursday April 17, 2025 1-230pm ET Creating a Plan
Presenter: Lorraine Finch, Director, LFCP

In the final webinar, participants will learn how to "write a sustainability plan in an hour", which can then be implemented at their institutions.

Course Coordinator: Kelly McCauley Krish, Preventive Conservator

Registration Fee

$99 Early Bird through March 20, 2025
$149 Regular Fee

Connecting to Collections Care courses are made possible in part by generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

To register: connectingtocollections.org/sustainability_plansships, and future resilience, along with the opportunity to optimize the preservation of collections. Doing so can be critical for small and mid-sized institutions with substantially limited resources to survive and thrive going forward.