11th Annual Meeting
Published: June 15, 1996
Date: June 11 – June 15, 1996 Location: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, PA USA Organizer: Elana Benamy
Resources
SPNHC holds annual meetings and sponsors workshops and symposia that foster the exchange of ideas and information in the field of natural history collections care. Here you can find details of past meetings along with downloadable minutes, brochures and other files where available.
10th Annual Meeting: “The Record of Nature through Countless Ages”
Published: June 6, 1995
Date: June 2 – 6, 1995 Location: Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, ON, Canada Chair: Janet Waddington: Workshop: Managing the Modern Herbarium
9th Annual Meeting, jointly with Association of Systematics Collections
Published: May 15, 1994
Date: May 11 – May 15, 1994 Location: Missouri Botanical Garden St. Louis, MO USA Organizer: Ann Pinzl Jim Solomon (MOBOT) and Elaine Hoagland (ASC) Workshop: Risk Assessment
8th Annual Meeting
Published: June 13, 1993
Date: June 8- June 13, 1993 Location: Royal British Columbia Museum Victoria, BC Canada Organizer: Grant Hughes Workshop: Archival Concerns of Natural History Museums
7th Annual Meeting
Published: June 6, 1992
Date: June 2- June 6, 1992 Location: Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE USA Organizer: Charles Messenger and Greg Brown Workshop: Pest Management
International Symposium and First World Congress for the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections
Published: May 15, 1992
Date: May 10 – May 15, 1992 Location: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid, Spain Organizing Committee: German Alonso (Spain), Juilo Gisbert (Spain)
6th Annual Meeting
Published: May 11, 1991
Date: May 6 – May 11, 1991 Location: Canadian Museum of Nature Ottawa, ON Canada Local Committee Chair: Gerald R. Fitzgerald Program Committee Chair: Robert Waller Workshop: Practical Approaches to Preventative Conservation
5th Annual Meeting
Published: May 13, 1990
Date: May 7 – May 13, 1990 Location: Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, IL USA Organizer: David Willard and others Workshop: Exhibiting Natural History Materials
4th Annual Meeting: Collections: Our Treasured Heritage
Published: July 28, 1989
Date: July 23 – July 28, 1989 Location: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, AB Canada and the University of Calgary, Calgary AB. Canada. Co-Chairs: Emlyn Koster, Anthony Russell Assistant Co-Chairs: Jane Danis and Herbert Rosenberg Workshop: Storage Design and Materials for Natural History
3rd Annual Meeting
Published: June 3, 1988
Date: May 30 – June 3, 1988 Location: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, PA USA Organizer: Duane Schlitter, Stephen Williams Workshop: Health Hazards Associated with Natural History Museums
1st Annual Meeting
Published: June 10, 1986
Date: June 9 – June 10, 1986 Location: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC USA Organizer: Fredrick J. Collier
SPNHC Organizational Meeting
Published: November 6, 1985
Date: November 6, 1985 Location: Buffalo Museum of Science Buffalo, NY, USA Chair: Daniel J. Faber
Second Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections
Published: May 23, 1985
Date: May 22 – May 23, 1985 Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto ON Canada Organizer: Janet Waddington, David M. Rudkin Publication: Waddington, Janet and David M. Rudkin, Editors, (1986) Proceedings of the 1985 Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections, Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publications, 121pp., ISSN 0082-5093, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON Canada.
Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections
Published: May 28, 1981
Date: May 27- May 28, 1981 Location: National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa ON Canada Organizer: Daniel J. Faber, Gerald R. Fitzgerald Publication: Faber, Daniel J., Editor, (1983) Proceedings of 1981 Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections, Syllogeus, No. 44, 196pp., ISSN 0704-576X, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, ON Canada.