New user-friendly handbook launched by UNESCO and ICCROM helps save heritage collections in emergencies. Armed conflicts and natural disasters causing deliberate or collateral damage to cultural heritage are more prominent than ever. To help strengthen efforts to save collections from imminent threats, UNESCO and ICCROM have joined forces to produce "Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections", a practical handbook available for free download. Built upon years of experience and real-life situations, this publication offers a field-tested, simple work flow for the emergency evacuation of valuable objects that is easy to replicate in any context. A multi-purpose guide, it is created with a variety of users in mind, with simple language and layout intended for heritage personnel, emergency responders and civilians alike. It offers guidance on when and how to intervene to protect endangered heritage, its illustrations and charts helping readers to understand quickly and begin working. In crisis situations already under way, it is a fast and easy read that covers the emergency documentation of collections, safe transport and temporary storage. For institutions that are either in vulnerable areas or generally seeking to create an emergency plan, this booklet will be a valuable aid in disaster preparedness. It will assist users in prioritizing needs and in planning for realistic action within specific circumstances, using limited resources. Created within the framework of UNESCO’s Emergency Response Actions and ICCROM’s flagship programme on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis, this tool has been developed with training and learning at the centre of its focus. It is based on the unique body of knowledge amassed through numerous training activities relating to cultural heritage and actual emergencies that have taken place worldwide. Download the PDF here: http://www.iccrom.org/wp-content/uploads/Endangered-Heritage_INTERACTIVE.pdf Jennifer Copithorne Communications Officer, Publications ICCROM ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
