Cultural Heritage Disaster
Risk Management Center, Japan

Preserving history and culture for the futureWho We Are
The Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk
Management Center (CHDRMC)
was established on October 1, 2020,
with the goal of protecting a diverse
range of cultural heritage fromfrequently occurring disasters.
We work in tandem with staff
members of two research institutes
and four national museums of theNational Institutes for Cultural

Our Missions

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CHDRMC undertakes various initiatives basedon its three core missions of 1 reducing
disaster risk to safeguard our cultural heritage,
2 building systems and developing
technologies to save disaster-hit cultural
heritage as quickly as possible, and3 providing support for salvage operations for
cultural heritage when disasters occur.

A workshop on the environmental monitoringof temporary storage facilities

A shaking-table experiment of replicatedmuseum gallery

Emergency assistance responding torequests from damaged local government

Heritage (NICH).

Our
Five Main
Initiatives

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Building Regional Disaster
Preparedness andResponse Frameworks

Preparing Disaster
Guidelines

Developing Technologies
for Salvage, Storage,and Exhibition

Raising
AwarenessCollecting andUtilizing Information

We develop technologies for thesafe storage, exhibition, andemergency salvage of cultural
heritage.

We raise awareness and spreadknowledge on cultural heritage
disaster risk management
through providing instruction,advice, training and so forth. We
aim to reach a wide audience
both within Japan and overseas.

We collect information on
cultural heritage disaster risk
management and examine how
this can contribute to Japanesecultural heritage disaster risk
management system.

A survey on the environment of temporary storage
facilities during disasters

A workshop on the emergency treatment ofwater-damaged paper materials

A survey on methods of obtaining location information
on damaged cultural properties and identifying damage

We make it a goal to build regional
disaster preparedness and response
frameworks for cultural heritage inclose cooperation with otherinstitutions, such as local
governments, museums andgalleries, universities and research
institutions, and voluntary groups.

A meeting on regional disaster preparedness and response
framework for cultural heritage with local government

We formulate guidelines tofacilitate the swift
commencement of cultural
heritage salvage.

Guidebook for Radiation Protection of Cultural
Properties 2021 (in Japanese)Organizational Chart
President

AuditorNational Institutes for
Cultural Heritage Headquarters

Audit OfficeDirectorsSecretariat

Tokyo National Museum

National Center for the Promotion ofCultural Properties

Kyoto National Museum

Cultural Heritage Disaster
Risk Management CenterDirector

Nara National Museum

Kyushu National Museum

Deputy Director

Tokyo National Research Institutefor Cultural Properties

Supervising Manager

Nara National Research Institute forCultural Properties

International Research Centre for
Intangible Cultural Heritage in
Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI)

Research Division

General Affairs

Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk Management Center
Information Sharing,
Close Collaboration

Promoting / Strengthening
Collaboration

Cooperation / Collaboration
Facilitating Communication

Agency for
Cultural Affairs

Local Government Bodies*,
Collaborating Regional
Organizations

Professional
Associations & Organizations

with the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in Japan, the protection of cultural properties is a responsibility of* Inlocalaccordance
governments as they exist in their jurisdiction.

Contact
Address: 2-9-1 Nijo-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture 630-8577
Tel: +81-742-31-9056 E-mail: info_bosai@nich.go.jp Our website: https://ch-drm.nich.go.jp/english/

Published: March 2023