This site visit examines the facility for potential large-scale risks to the collection. The visit starts with a staff meeting to discuss emergency priorities and first response. After the meeting, a facility walk-through with five key staff members identifies areas of large or small risk. These people also attend separate meetings with representatives from the museum's insurance carrier and the local fire and police departments. At the end of the visit, an outline of an emergency plan is drawn from the collated information.
Staff have one month to write a first draft for review and schedule the first of a series of drills.
A second site visit will work with staff during one of the drills. Collections Care Planning Similar to a general survey, this site visit examines the facility for long-term risks to the collection. Designed to assist staff prioritize collections needs, within a day the skeleton of a workable plan is completed. The visit starts with a staff meeting to discuss collections needs they have noticed. This is followed by a facility walk-through with five key staff members to identify problem areas.