{"id":11878,"date":"2015-01-29T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11878"},"modified":"2015-01-29T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:43:18","slug":"be-prepared-not-just-a-boy-scout-motto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/29\/be-prepared-not-just-a-boy-scout-motto\/","title":{"rendered":"Be prepared: not just a Boy Scout motto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s every museum\u2019s nightmare: an errant spark from construction causes a fire; sprinklers unleash water on some of the most vulnerable objects in the collection.\u00a0 Luckily this museum had an emergency response plan.\u00a0 In\u00a0the Dec. 26, 2014\u00a0Wall Street Journal article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/after-american-museum-of-natural-history-fire-preservationists-get-to-work-1419549382\">&#8220;After Fire, a Rush to Preserve History,&#8221;<\/a> the conservators at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) faced\u00a0this all too common\u00a0nightmare\u00a0and successfully and quickly responded.\u00a0 Ironically, the damage occurred in the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians, the recent focus of a multi-year conservation project, described previously on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2012\/11\/from-the-bench-these-face-lifts-require-heavy-lifting\/\">blog <\/a>and also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2014\/07\/42nd-annual-meeting-paintings-joint-with-wooden-artifacts-may-31-painted-totem-poles-at-the-american-museum-of-natural-history-treatment-challenges-and-solutions-by-sa\/\">presented\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0at last year&#8217;s AIC annual conference.\u00a0 The conservation department, led by Judith Levinson (pictured in the article), quickly removed the affected objects, catalogued them, and performed triage.\u00a0 Levinson was also featured in a <a href=\"http:\/\/pix11.com\/2014\/12\/29\/work-underway-to-restore-damaged-artifacts-at-the-museum-of-natural-history\/\">video<\/a> by local news channel Pix 11.\u00a0 This occurrence raises the question: does your museum have a emergency response plan?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s every museum\u2019s nightmare: an errant spark from construction causes a fire; sprinklers unleash water on some of the most vulnerable objects in the collection.\u00a0 Luckily this museum had an emergency response plan.\u00a0 In\u00a0the Dec. 26, 2014\u00a0Wall Street Journal article &#8220;After Fire, a Rush to Preserve History,&#8221; the conservators at the American Museum of Natural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/29\/be-prepared-not-just-a-boy-scout-motto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be prepared: not just a Boy Scout motto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectioncare","category-in-the-news","category-disasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}