21st February 2017 - 25th, May 2017
Academic course with focus on Natural History Collections in Spain (in Spanish)
Title: Diploma en Gestión, conservación y exhibición de colecciones de Ciencias Naturales
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Facultad de Biología (UCM), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC); Real Jardín Botánico (RJB-CSIC), Museo de la Geología (Facultad de Geología, UCM), Madrid (Spain)
Language: Spanish
Content: Natural History focused
Level training: academic (6 ECTS, MSc, PhD) and Lifelong Learning
Geographical range of audience: international (but course in Spanish)
Target audience: technicians, undergraduates, graduates (MSc, PhD) and postgraduates
Training included: classroom lectures, seminars, exercise sessions, guided visits and academic work
Periodicity: First edition
Dates: 21st February 2017 - 25th, May 2017
Duration: 150 hours (60 hours of: classroom lectures, seminars, exercise sessions; 90 of academic work)
Contact: Alfredo Baratas (e-mail: baratas@ucm.es)
URL: https://www.ucm.es/estudios/2016-17/diploma-gestionconsercyexhibiciondec...
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14-18 November 2016
Title: Care and Management of Natural History Collections
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) Barcelona (Spain)
Language: English
Content: Natural History Collections
Level training: non-academic
Target audience: people working with or interested in working with natural history collections
Geographical range of audience: international
Periodicity: First edition
Dates: 14th-18th, November 2016
Duration: 40 hours
URL: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/drawing-and-communication/car...
3-6 November 2015
Title: Un museo de grandes historias: políticas públicas e iniciativas privadas en la formación de las colecciones del MNA
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA), Cauri Asociación de Amigos del Museo y Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (in the framework of 2015 Week of Science)
Language: Spanish
Content: Cultural Heritage focused (anthropology)
Level training: non-academic
Target audience: general public
Geographical range of audience: national
Periodicity: one time in the framework of a special occasion
Dates: 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th november 2015
Duration: 4 days
URL: -
More info here
11 November - 2 December 2015
Title: Los Museos: su función científica y educativa
Organising institution(s)/organisation(s): Departamento de Educación Ambiental - Comunidad de Madrid, with Facultad de Biología- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) and Real Jardín Botánico (RJB-CSIC)
Language: Spanish
Content: Natural History focused (botanical, zoological, fluid-preserved, dried, entomological, taxidermy & skins, fossils, rocks & minerals, restoration of fossils, tissues, ADN)
Level training: non-academic
Target audience: High School Professors and Teachers (Biology and Geology, Physics and Chemistry)
Geographical range of audience: national
Periodicity: one time in the framework of a special occasion
Dates: 11th, 16th, 18th, 23th, 25th, 30th november and 2nd december. Mondays and Wednesdays from 17.00 to 20.00 h
Duration: 7 days
URL: http://crif.acacias.educa.madrid.org/index.php?option=com_crif_cursos&vi...
1 October 2015
Feuer, Wasser, Hagelschlag... Notfallplanung zum Schutz naturkundlicher Sammlungen
Organised by & Venue: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
1 Okt 2015
More info see flyer
21-22 September 2015
A workshop on Access and Benefit Sharing for actors in the Natural History Museums Community
Venue: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Organised by CETAF ABS core team