Dear all,

 

Apologies for cross posting.

 

This week we have Alice Cannon coming to present the collections seminar. Details are below:

 

Running a collection risk management program at a multidisciplinary museum

 

Museums Victoria (MV) is a large multidisciplinary museum, located in Melbourne, Australia. Its collections include natural science material (encompassing geoscience, terrestrial and marine collections), social history and technology collections, and Australian and international Indigenous material.

MV recently completed the first round of a whole-of-collection risk assessment program, using the CPRAM model developed by Dr Rob Waller. Some of MV’s highest ranking risks were found to be the expected loss of frozen tissue collections, management of unstable 20^th century materials (e.g. plastics, audiovisual material, colour photographic formats, and acidic paper), deterioration of pyrites, iron meteorites and archaeological iron, collection security issues, and dissociation risks (loss of associated documentation or data).

While implementing the risk management framework has been a long and labour-intensive initiative, the results of the assessments have been very useful. The implementation process has also yielded many other advantages for the improved care and preservation of the collections. This talk will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the model, mitigation strategies that have been developed in response to the results, and potential barriers to the success of these risk mitigation programs.

 

 

Speaker: Alice Cannon

is a paper conservator and manages the collection risk assessment program at Museums Victoria.

 

Open to all

The seminar is open to all museum professionals.

It is suggested that the following staff will find the seminar most useful:

Science Group: All senior department managers and collection management staff.

Public Engagement Group: Any staff who work with and use collections or manage staff who work with collections.

Directorate and Science Directorate.

Please email [log in to unmask] for more information and/or to book a place.
Natural History Museum staff do not need to book.

 

Kind Regards

 

Zoë

 

Zoë Hughes

Curator of Brachiopods and Cephalopods

Department of Earth Sciences

The Natural History Museum

Cromwell Road

London

SW7 5BD

 

T +44 (0)20 7942  5470

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