Sustaining Places

Resources for small museums and historic sites

Listservs You Should Join

Posted every week, this is a list mainly for conservators and includes lots of Q&A: consdistlist@cool.conservation-us.org

This list, sponsored by the AASLH covers issues for historic house museumshistorichousemuseums@yahoogroups.com

This is one of the most active museum lists, dealing with a large range of museum issues for any sized museum: MUSEUM-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM

This list deals with exhibition preparation and installation, including lots of tips for packing artifacts: pacinlist@listserve.com

This list deals with pest problems, and you can send in pictures/descriptions of pests in your museum for help with identification: pestlist@museumpests.net

This group is primarily for museum educatorstalk@museum-ed.org