Workshop: Emergency! Is Your Cultural Heritage Institution Prepared?

Workshop: Emergency! Is Your Cultural Heritage Institution Prepared?

With more frequent severe weather and civil discontentment, the risk to cultural heritage sites is at an all time high.  Having a strategy and tools in place simplifies the response to collection emergencies and ensures an institution will recover swiftly to return to its mission.

A group of people in hardhats and bright colored safety vests work to salvage practice artifacts on top of large blue tarps
Cultural Heritage Emergency Preparadness workshop

Date and Time: May 19th ,  9:00  a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street NW , Washington, DC  20007
Admission: Free of charge with a 50 seat limitation. Register as soon as possible.
To Register: Linda Gottfried- Lgottfried@aurorastorage.com, 216-544-9552. Register NO LATER than May 12th, 2017

Speakers:
Rebecca Kennedy, Preservation Specialist & Cultural Heritage First Aider, Smithsonian Institution
Jerry L. Foust, Ph.D., Collections & Facilities Manager, Dumbarton House,  NSCDA

Workshop Topics:
-Preparedness, Training and Response
-Revisiting Disaster Plans
-Getting Help

Tours of the Dumbarton House will be available after the seminar.

Graphic with logos of sponsors. Sponsors included Dumbarton House, Hollinger Metal Edge, Bonsai Fine Arts, Aurora, Hollinger Metal Edge