Courses we recommend:

MS253: Disaster Preparation and Recovery Online Course

 

 

Books and products we recommend:

The A.R.K.: A Recovery KitThe A.R.K.: A Recovery Kit. Based on emergency personnel's incident command system, the A.R.K. is used by museums throughout Minnesota. Created to assist disaster recovery, the A.R.K. leads staff through the first 24 hours of a musem disaster. Applicable to any disaster, the kit provides six laminated position description cards with fill-in resource lists on each, five collection recovery posters, name tags, permanent marker and recovery priority cards. Packaged in a waterproof envelope. The kit should be kept in one to three staff members' cars, so it is immediately accessible.

The A.R.K.: A Recovery Kit $75.00 [Add to Cart]   

Links to related information on other sites:

Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit (FEMA)
http://www.fema.gov/library/diskit.shtm

Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/disaster/famlykit.htm

Your Family Disaster Supplies Kit
http://www.disasterrelief.org/Library/Prepare/supplies.html

Preparing Salvage Caches for Emergency Use (Conserve-O-Gram 2/6)- (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/02-06.pdf