2024 MuseumPests Working Group Program Announcement

March 20-22, 2024 IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL MEETING We are excited to meet with in-person again this year. We are grateful to Jessica Pace and NYU Libraries for their ability and willingness to host us in New York.  The program is scheduled for 2.5 days, beginning with...

2023 MuseumPests are back in person! – Session ReCAP

For the first time since we last got together in 2020 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, we are back! Once again at the Met.  Some of us got the meeting started going to see Adam Osgood’s incredible harmonica skills at his gig. We were all in awe, we had...

2023 MuseumPests Working Group Program Announcement

March 15-17, 2023 IN-PERSON MEETING After two years of virtual meetings, we are excited to return to an in-person meeting format this year. We are grateful to our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Director’s Office and Department of Scientific...

2nd MuseumPests Public Presentation Session March 3, 2022

Join us for MuseumPests Second Public Presentation Session on March 3 starting at 12:00 U.S. Eastern Time.  In order to receive the direct Zoom webinar link please RSVP by March 1. If you do not RSVP you will be able to watch via Facebook live. The session will be...

MuseumPests 2022 Virtual Working Group Schedule

19th MuseumPests Working Group Meeting Hosted by: ZOOM! Schedule DAY 1 – Tuesday, March 1 8:45 amLog-in to Zoom say hi to your colleagues 9:00-9:30Digital Introductions9:30-10:00Introduce subgroup projects:- Prevention- Identification - Solutions - Vertebrates-...

2022 MPWG Virtual Meeting Projects

Check out our list of topics and projects to see what you might want to work on or contribute during the 2021 Virtual Working Group Meeting March 1-2, 2022. TOPIC: Prevention CONTENT LEADER: Matt MickletzPROJECTS/GOALS:  Continue working on the Developing Policy...

Integrated Pest Management for Collections now available for purchase

edited by Suzanne Ryder and Amy Crossman This collection of papers and posters presented at the 2021 ICON conference A Pest Odyssey – The Next Generation is evidence that integrated pest management (IPM) has been adopted globally as the accepted strategy...

2022 MuseumPests Working Group Virtual Program Announcement

March 1-3, 2022 VIRTUAL MEETING Last year there was hope that we would be able to meet in person in 2022 but clearly the pandemic has still affected travel, budgets and schedules. Given the success and efficiency of our virtual 2021 meeting we are proposing a second...

Pest Odyssey 2021 – The Next Generation

The Icon Pest Odyssey Network is please to announce that tickets are now available for its third, international, decennial conference. This will be a fully virtual conference, 20th - 22nd September 2021 and will enable participants to focus on changes and new...

Tercera llamada….. ¡¡¡Comenzamos!!! MuseumPests en ESPAÑOL

Estamos muy emocionados de lanzar oficialmente la versión en español de MuseumPests. Este proyecto comenzó lentamente, con la traducción de páginas individuales, pero alcanzó su punto máximo durante los encierros de la pandemia COVID-19 en el 2020. El proyecto reunió...

MuseumPests First Ever Public Presentation Session!

March 11, 2021, 12:00 – 4:30 (GMT -5:00) Join us for MuseumPests First Public Presentation Session.  For those who haven't already RSVP'd to receive a direct Zoom link, you can access the program via Facebook Live on the MuseumPests page.  The session will...

MuseumPests.net needs your help – Fundraising appeal

The MuseumPests Working Group began 19 years ago; from our initial 2002 meeting with seven people, we have now grown into a worldwide network to support the needs of museum, library, archive and historic house staff who strive to...

2021 MuseumPests Working Group Virtual Program Announcement

Since our 2020 in-person meeting at the Met, almost a year ago, our world has been turned upside-down but as insects have adapted to our new realities so have we. The MuseumPests Working Group (MPWG) is rising to the challenge and maintaining our momentum with our...

MuseumPests 2021 Virtual Working Group Schedule

Schedule DAY 1 – Tuesday, March 9 8:45 am Log-in to Zoom say hi to your colleagues  9:00-9:30 Digital Introductions 9:30-10:00 Introduce subgroup projects: Prevention  Identification  Solutions Rodents  Monitoring  Health & Safety ...

2021 Virtual Working Group Projects

Check out our list of topics and projects to see what you might want to work on or contribute during the 2021 Virtual Working Group Meeting March 9-10. TOPIC: Prevention  CONTENT LEADER: Matt Mickletz PROJECTS/GOALS:  Continue working on the Developing...

Pest Odyssey 2021 Call for Abstracts

Call for abstracts: Pest Odyssey 2021 – the Next Generation Detect, Respond, Recover – best practice IPM in 2021 20th - 22nd September 2021 This will be a fully virtual conference and will enable participants to focus on changes and new developments in IPM over the...

New Research on Oxygen Meter & Analyzer Performance

The detection of low quantities of oxygen (less than 0.3% by volume) is essential to the creation of an anoxic environment capable of eradicating all stages of insect life. To ensure sufficiently low oxygen levels throughout an anoxic treatment, digital oxygen meters...

17th MuseumPests Working Group Meeting 2020 Update

Hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 26-28  I’m delighted to be back at the MuseumPests Working Group for the third time, it’s wonderful to be welcomed back into the IPM family! As the end of day three rolls around, it’s time to write the blog...

Register for the Introduction to Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage Collections Workshop

Registration is currently open and a few spots remain for the upcoming IPM workshop to be held February 24-25, 2020 in New York City.   REGISTRATION The fee for the two-day workshop is $375. Payment can be made online via the Insects Limited Website’s online...

Robert E (Bob) Child Memorial

Robert E. Child - Memorial December 18, 2019 It is a great loss to the MuseumPest group and the greater museum community as a whole that Robert E. (Bob) Child passed away earlier this week. Bob served as the Chief Conservator for the National Museum and Galleries of...
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