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Providing collection care, preservation and conservation treatment services to collectors and collecting institutions. |
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Online Museum Classes
Description: Every museum needs to be prepared for fires, floods, chemical spills, tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters. But surveys show 80 percent lack trained staff, emergency-preparedness plans for their collections, or both. Disaster Plan Research and Writing begins with the creation of disaster-preparedness teams, the importance of ongoing planning, employee safety, board participation and insurance. Participants will learn everything they need to draft their own disaster-preparedness plans. They also will be required to incorporate colleagues in team-building exercises. A written disaster-preparedness plan is not only a good idea, it's also a requirement for accreditation. In the second half of the course, instructor Terri Schindel reviews and provides input as participants write plans that outline the procedures to follow in various emergencies. The completed plan prepares museums physically and mentally to handle emergencies that can harm vulnerable and irreplaceable collections. You will have a completed institutional disaster-preparedness and response plan at the end of the course. Course Outline: 1. Introduction to Disaster Planning 2. Disaster Team 3. Risk Assessment and Management 4. Health and Safety 5. Insurance 6. Documentation 7. Prioritizing Collections 8. Writing the Disaster Preparedness Plan 9. Emergency Procedures 10. Disaster Response 11. Emergency Procedures - Recovery 12. Emergency Procedures - Salvage 13. Emergency Procedures - Salvage Techniques and Guidelines 14. Emergency supplies and location of regional resources 15. Appendices: What to put in them 16. Next steps: planning drills and further resources 17. Conclusion Required Textbook: Disaster Planning I uses the required textbook Steal This Handbook! A Template for Creating a Museum's Emergency Preparedness Plan, which is available for purchase at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html
Logistics: MS205/6: Disaster Plan Research and Writing lasts eight weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
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