Date
November de 2011
Publication
This publication is the result of the Workshop Seminar on Risk Management for Museum Heritage, held in Brasilia (Brazil) from October 17 to 21, 2011. This meeting brought together international and Ibero-American experts to present theoretical and practical cases related to the diagnosis and risk analysis, preventive actions, objective actions at the time of a disaster and rescue and recovery actions. The texts were written by Angelo Oswaldo de Araújo Santos, Ivana de Siqueira and Jacqueline Assis.
Number of Pages
375
Assays of the Workshop Seminar on Risk Management for Museum Heritage
About this publication
Essays from the Seminar-Workshop on Risk Management of Museum Heritage presents texts about Museum Heritage at Risk, written by M. Angela Benavente, Veronica M. Bullock, Julieta Elizaga, Eduardo Góchez, Beatriz Haspo, Maurizio Indirli, Chris Marrion, Antonio Carlos dos Santos Oliveira, José Luiz Pedersoli Jr. and Carmen Rallo Gruss.
Summary
The Ibermuseums Program has some important partnerships in the field of museums that aim to strengthen public policies for preserving the museum heritage of Ibero-American cultures.
Recent examples of tragic natural disasters, such as those in Chile (2010), Brazil (2010), Haiti (2011), Spain (2011) and El Salvador (2011), show the need for activities to address the risk of museum heritage. Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters have harmful effects and cause irreparable losses to the populations and their cultural legacies. By training museum professionals, we can mitigate not only these natural challenges but also human ones, such as fire, theft and neglect in maintaining spaces and artefacts.
In partnership with the Getty Foundation, the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture and the Ibermuseums Program have made progress in promoting among the state bodies responsible for museums a series of methodologies to prevent or undertake pro-active action to implement emergency plans in case of natural disasters and security plans to protect the museum heritage of our region.
