MACC Workshop

Link to MACC Disaster Response: The Critical First 48 Hours
Presented by Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC)
Sponsored by the Minnesota Association of Museums (MAM)

Neil Cockerline, Director of Preservation Services and/or Elisa Redman, Assistant Director of Preservation Services, MACC, will teach this one-day workshop. Instruction will be conducted through a variety of methods, including lecture and PowerPoint, discussion, and practical and role-playing exercises.

  • How to determine if this event is really a disaster.
  • Who is in charge at any given time.
  • The size of the disaster may dictate the appropriate response.
  • What happens when the affected area is declared a Federal Disaster Area.
  • Recording a disaster for insurance or FEMA purposes.
  • What information is needed and where it is found.
  • How to protect collections from further disasters.
  • Working with emergency responders (police, fire department, FEMA, etc.)
  • Making sure cultural institution staff responders are safe, secure and well equipped.
  • Changing priorities in an ever-changing event.
  • The need for flexibility and communication.
  • What to do if there is loss of life.
  • Working with the media.
  • Working with insurance companies and representatives.

Cost: $60 for MAM members, $70 for nonmembers To register, please complete the registration form and submit with check payment to “MAM.”

Questions? Contact MAM Program Chair Nina Clark at ninac@americanswedishinst.org, or call 612-870-3374.