Warrensville West Cemetery Gravestone Preservation Workshop

October 23, 2021 | 10am-2pm | The Dealership/Warrensville West Cemetery

Are you fascinated with history and historic preservation? Does geology or genealogy interest you? Want to roll up your sleeves and learn a new skill? As part of the Warrensville West Cemetery Historic Preservation Plan, a partnership with the City of Shaker Heights, Shaker Historical Society, and Shaker Heights Public Library, experts will be training community volunteers in the skills needed to help preserve the cemetery’s gravestones. Join us for an engaging, hands-on workshop where you will learn:

• Cemetery and Monument Safety

• The geology of monument stone

• Monument styles

• Monument photography

• Stone cleaning

• Stone resetting

Pack your lunch, wear work clothes, bring work gloves, bring a folding chair if you have one, and meet us at 10 am for a pre-workshop presentation at The Dealership (3558 Lee Road). Masks will be required while we are inside the building and social distancing protocols will be required throughout the workshop. After a 30-minute presentation, we’ll head over to the cemetery and get to work. The event will take place rain or shine, so dress accordingly. All participants will be required to sign a waiver upon arrival.

Museum Methods for Home Collections: Going Digital

January 23, 2021 | 12-1pm | www.facebook.com/shakerhistory

Have you ever wondered how to start your own digital collection? In this session of Museum Methods for Home Collections: Going Digital, learn techniques used by museum professionals to digitize and preserve your photos and documents. Not only will digitizing your collection allow you to effortlessly share copies of your old family photos, but it is also easier to start and maintain a digital collection than you may imagine.

This webinar is designed to teach non-museum staff basic skills and techniques employed by museums and archives to preserve historical items. In this webinar, you will learn what terms like “digitization”, “born-digital”, and “digital preservation” mean and why it is important to digitally preserve your at-home collection. The webinar will include a demonstration of how to use a scanner or camera to digitize your physical items. By the end of the webinar, you will be able to start and maintain your own digital collection so that you can continue to enjoy it for years to come.

Tune in to our Facebook page on January 23rd to learn from presenters Amanda Wachowiak and Marissa Hamm of the Ohio History Service Corps!

Museum Methods for Home Collections

November 21, 2020 | 12-1pm | www.facebook.com/shakerhistory

Watch the recording of this virtual workshop to learn techniques that museum curators use to protect and preserve historical artifacts. Apply those skills to caring for family heirlooms, photos, antique furniture, and more. These tips will help you provide museum-quality care for your personal artifacts that will allow you to preserve and enjoy them for years to come.

This webinar is designed to teach non-museum staff basic skills and techniques employed by museums and archives to preserve historical artifacts. Viewers will learn about environmental hazards, archival storage, tips on caring for and cleaning a variety of materials, and observe live demonstrations of some of these techniques. The goal is to make museum preservation accessible to the general public so that they can use these techniques on personal collections.