[BCMA] Spring Courses - Cultural Resource Management Program (Online and Face to Face)

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Build your professional capacity and resilience as a museum professional!

University of Victoria’s Online Museum and Heritage Studies programs, offered by the Department of Art History and Visual Studies and the Division of Continuing Studies, Cultural Resource Management Program, are open for credit and non-credit course registration.

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Indigenous Cultural Stewardship<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/indigenous-cultural-stewardship>
Delivery style: Online Asynchronous<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Jan. 5 – Apr. 12, 2026
Code: AHVS488I
Instructor: Brandie Macdonald<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/119680> and  Sdahl Ḵ’awaas (Lucy Bell) <https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/119771>
Develop an understanding of the historical relationship between the museum/heritage sector and Indigenous communities, and develop foundational knowledge and skills to support the preservation and stewardship of Indigenous tangible and intangible culture and heritage.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/indigenous-cultural-stewardship>

Museum Principles and Practices II<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/museum-principles-and-practices-ii>
Delivery style: Online Asynchronous<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Jan. 5 – Apr. 12, 2026
Code: AHVS486B
Instructor: John Summers<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbuc-kud5cx63/>
By balancing theory and practice, this course provides a foundation for your work in museums and challenges you to develop your professional philosophy, to think critically, and to recognize both the constant and the changing factors that shape museum work. This course covers the foundations of museum practice and explored the various ways in which museums create and preserve knowledge through their curatorial and collections management functions. Museum Principles and Practices II: Programming, Exhibitions, and Management, covers public programming and exhibitions and goes on to consider core management strategies and issues.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/museum-principles-and-practices-ii>

Heritage Resource Management<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/heritage-resource-management>
Delivery style: Online Asynchronous<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Jan. 5 – Apr. 12, 2026
Code: AHVS487A
Instructor: Chris Wiebe<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/118294>
This course provides an introduction to the principles and practices of heritage conservation. The concept of heritage has expanded to encompass historic districts, cultural landscapes and living heritage as well as buildings, structures and gardens. This expansion of the concept of heritage has had a profound impact on the principles that guide conservation actions, the types of strategies employed to safeguard historic places and the role of heritage practitioners.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/heritage-resource-management>

Caring for Museum Collections<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/caring-for-museum-collections>
Delivery style: Online Asynchronous<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Jan. 5 – Apr. 12, 2026
Code: AHVS488D
Instructor: Susan Maltby<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/117273>
This course provides an introduction to preventive conservation. During the 14 weeks of this course, we focus on identifying and quantifying the environmental factors or agents of deterioration that affect collections, and on developing strategies that mitigate those factors. We build our understanding of the materials that make up a museum collection, both in how they degrade and in how they react to their environment and the objects around them. As well, we explore strategies for evaluating conservation requirements for the safe exhibition and storage of museum collections. Finally, we explore the role of an integrated planning and a risk management approach to collections care.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/caring-for-museum-collections>

Curatorial Planning and Practice<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/curatorial-planning-and-practice>
Delivery style: Online Asynchronous<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Jan. 5 – Apr. 12, 2026
Code: AHVS488X
Instructor: Richard Gerrard<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/117166>
This course is designed to familiarize students with both the theory and practice of curating in art, history, anthropology, science and interdisciplinary museums. The first five weeks of the course will focus on theory, history and ethics; Students will explore and debate the evolving definitions of what is involved in curating. The remainder of the course will focus on practice. In addition to readings and online discussions, students will select one public site in their community and engage in a series of exercises that encourage them to explore best practices in curating.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/curatorial-planning-and-practice>

Visitor Experiences<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/visitor-experiences>
Delivery style: Online Asynchronous<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Jan. 5 – Apr. 12, 2026
Code: AHVS488Y
Instructor: Mary Kay Cunningham<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/118413>
This course explores the evolving concept and implications of an holistic approach to visitor engagement in museums and other cultural heritage institutions. Topics include: museums’ relationships with their publics; museums’ capacity to serve as social spaces; strategies for audience research; the characteristics of visitors; communications; exhibitions; formal and informal learning activities; and evaluation strategies.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/visitor-experiences>

Exhibition Fabrication<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/exhibit-fabrication>
Delivery style: Face to Face<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Mar 2 – 7, 2026
Code: AHVS488H
Instructor: Kate Kerr<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/118844>
Topics covered will include: the basics of case design, layout and installation, including a summary of conservation-approved methods and materials; basic lighting of collections; simple mount making and support of objects on display; how to produce affordable yet professional labels, signage and other graphic elements; how to lay out and hang framed artwork; ideas for special effects such as scents, sound and light effects, projections, etc; and basic faux finishing, sculpting, and molding and casting for creating props, replicas and other creative/decorative elements. Join us to find simple and achievable solutions to your exhibition challenges.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/exhibit-fabrication>

Exhibition Planning and Design<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/exhibition-planning-and-design>
Delivery style: Face to Face<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbub-kud5cx62/>
Date: Mar 9 – 14, 2026
Code: AHVS488H
Instructor: Tim Willis<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/instructor/118410>
Exhibitions are the public face of your museum or gallery. They should inspire powerful visitor experiences. This immersive course examines the entire exhibition development sequence. It explores the principles that lie behind creating successful exhibitions that engage visitors' minds and emotions. It will address the following topics: the foundation of planning; the planning process; storytelling and interpretive planning; exhibition design; design of graphics and signage; interactive exhibit design; and fabrication and installation.
Register<https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/museums-heritage-and-indigenous-culture/courses/exhibition-planning-and-design>

About our program<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbuu-kud5cx61/>
The Cultural Resource Management Program<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbuv-kud5cx62/> offers online and six-day, on-campus
intensive courses for professionals, volunteers and board members in museums,
galleries, heritage sites, cultural centres and related organizations. Courses are
designed to address the emerging needs of the sector and build your personal and
organizational capacity.
In our courses, you will interact with colleagues from across North America and
beyond, participate in stimulating learning activities, and relate your learning to the
practical issues and realities of your workplace and community. These courses are
also taught by instructors who are leading professionals in the field.
Courses can be taken individually, towards a comprehensive diploma, or as a
focused professional specialization certificate. Individual credit and non-credit
course registration options are also available. Flexible and diverse, you can choose
the program and/or course that’s best suited to meet your goals and schedule:
Cultural Resource Management<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbuw-kud5cx63/> (diploma)
Collections Management<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbux-kud5cx64/> (professional specialization certificate)
Visitor and Community Engagement<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbuy-kud5cx65/> (professional specialization certificate)
Digital Planning for the Cultural Sector<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbuz-kud5cx66/> (micro-certificate)
Indigenous Cultural Stewardship<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbv0-kud5cx63/> (micro-certificate)

Learn more<https://trk.cp20.com/click/72bp-2ycsvl-xhcbv1-kud5cx64/>

Cultural Resource Management
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