DEMHIST – International Committee for Historic House Museums
22 August 2022, 16:00–17:30, Prague Congress Centre
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Organizing committee: DEMHIST
Paper session: The Power of Historic House Museums
What is the power of Historic House Museums opposed to other museums? Does it lie in the spaces themselves – in the nexus of authenticity and memory that create the historic house museum experience of historic structure, collections, and narrative? How does this power continue to resonate and remain relevant? How does current digital innovation align with topics such as historical authenticity, visitor experience and collection care?
23 August 2022, 14:30–16:00, Prague Congress Centre
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Organizing committees: DEMHIST, ICOM-CC, DRMC, ICMS, ICTOP, INTERCOM, ICOM-JAPAN
Expert Session: Resilience of Historic House Museums and their Collections to Risks posed by Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, and Conflict Zones
The expert session will address risks to historic buildings and their collections by focussing on preventive conservation issues and the steps needed before, during and after disaster response. What resources should be allocated to mitigate risks to the built structure? How can museums develop risk management plans with community involvement? How should a museum prioritize collection items to be saved in case of emergency and how should they allocate resources for this purpose?
23 August 2022, 16:30–18:00, Prague Congress Centre
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Organizing committee: DEMHIST
Paper Session: House Museums and Risk Management
Following our 2021 conference on sustainability, this session calls for papers that will delve deeper into related issues of Disaster Risk Management and Resilience. What issues are unique to Historic House Museums and heritage sites? Historic buildings form part of the collection and have their own set of vulnerabilities and require protection, as does the collection within. The building is also part of the narrative; responses to disasters should recognize this in risk mitigation.