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Center for Collections Care


The Center for Collections Care at Beloit College (C 3 ) provides one-of-a-kind opportunities for hands-on learning and practice for emerging and practicing museum, library, archive, and conservation professionals.

Course fees include housing, breakfast, and lunch!

Our distinctive resources-two campus museums (Logan Museum of Anthropology and Wright Museum of Art), a vibrant archive, historic costume, and natural history collections-situated on the residential campus of a small, liberal arts college, provide unparalleled opportunities to gain new skills, network with other professionals, and better prepare for advancement. 

The Center’s courses are taught by accomplished professionals who are committed to sharing their knowledge and expertise. The Center’s residential learning community of practice offers participants the opportunity to connect with and learn from one another. The real impact of Center for Collections Care at Beloit College training is realized when participants return to their home institutions equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effect positive change. Courses are open to all, but participants do not receive Beloit College academic credit.

Beloit College is home to a well-established and nationally recognized Museum Studies Program that supports the integration of knowledge with experience, a core component of the College’s mission.

Mount making in full swing!
Mount making in full swing!
Care of Metals particpants
Care of Metals particpants
The burly Rigging crew.
The burly Rigging crew.
Long days mean catered in dinners for the folks in Traditional Gilding!
Long days mean catered in dinners for the folks in Traditional Gilding!
Fabulous visit to the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at UW Madison.
Fabulous visit to the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at UW Madison.
Look what we did!
Look what we did!
Rare Books participants prep for the next stage of book making.
Rare Books participants prep for the next stage of book making.
What better way to understand structure than by making a book?
What better way to understand structure than by making a book?
Participants learned the challenges of working with gold leaf!
Participants learned the challenges of working with gold leaf!
Experimenting with a variety of leaves and finishes in Traditional Gilding.
Experimenting with a variety of leaves and finishes in Traditional Gilding.
Box making in Storage Solutions.
Box making in Storage Solutions.
Clever or crazy? Or maybe both.
Clever or crazy? Or maybe both.
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Mount making in full swing!
Mount making in full swing!
Care of Metals particpants
Care of Metals particpants
The burly Rigging crew.
The burly Rigging crew.
Long days mean catered in dinners for the folks in Traditional Gilding!
Long days mean catered in dinners for the folks in Traditional Gilding!
Fabulous visit to the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at UW Madison.
Fabulous visit to the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at UW Madison.
Look what we did!
Look what we did!
Rare Books participants prep for the next stage of book making.
Rare Books participants prep for the next stage of book making.
What better way to understand structure than by making a book?
What better way to understand structure than by making a book?
Participants learned the challenges of working with gold leaf!
Participants learned the challenges of working with gold leaf!
Experimenting with a variety of leaves and finishes in Traditional Gilding.
Experimenting with a variety of leaves and finishes in Traditional Gilding.
Box making in Storage Solutions.
Box making in Storage Solutions.
Clever or crazy? Or maybe both.
Clever or crazy? Or maybe both.

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Center for Collections Care post graduate fellows, scholarships, and new online course development have been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands wisdom.

NEH-funded Scholarships

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The Center for Collections Care is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2025 season. 

With over a dozen C3 summer courses, there is plenty to engage beginner, intermediate, and advanced enthusiasts and museum, library, archive, and conservation professionals.

C3 elevates collection specialists’ skills with top-notch teachers and a museum-rich campus

Beloit College’s Center for Collections Care (C3) awarded $350K National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Preservation and Access Education and Training Grant broaden the program.  

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C3 empowers participants to be effective stewards of humanities collections by building the knowledge and skills necessary to care for and preserve our nation’s diverse heritage, says C# Drirector Nicollete Meister.

Beloit College’s C3 collections specialist training program gets a boost with $350K NEH grant

The NEH Preservation and Access Education and Training Grant will fund fellowships and scholarships for professionals from small museums, libraries, archives, and other cultural organizations. Scholarship applications …

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