Anthropic risk on cultural heritage is unfortunately still a very frequent threat which can also irreversibly damage the assets involved. When we talk about anthropic risk, we are referring to all those actions focused on directly and voluntarily damaging the assets...
The manual Risk Preparedness: A Management Manual for World Cultural Heritage, published by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in 1998, is a very useful tool for owners and managers of...
In a previous article, we saw how important it is for employees of a museum, archive or library to organize frequent exercises to test their ability to react to an emergency. But how do you organize an emergency exercise? Below we see some basic principles to take...
To create awareness of the best procedures for saving works of art, books and documents affected by an emergency, an extremely effective tool is represented by practical exercises. Putting rescue operations into practice allows us to fully understand their...
Cultural heritage, due to the variety of supports and materials from which it is made, is subject to a series of varied agents of degradation with very different consequences. Furthermore, it is rare for a collection to be subjected to only one category of degradation...
Risk management for cultural heritage is a very complex discipline that includes all phases of the risk identification and management process. Once the risks that threaten a collection have been identified, it is necessary to decide which of these are acceptable to...
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