Disaster Preparedness Response and Recovery
To hire a qualified museum consultant to train museum partners in disaster planning and preparedness.
Partners: McLeod County Historic Partnership: McLeod County Historical Society, Glencoe Historic Preservation Society, and Historic Hutchinson
Staff of the member organizations of the McLeod County Historic Partnership will receive training and resources to better care for collections, especially in emergencies. Members will train in proper disaster response procedures, create response plans that assist one another, and create a shared cache of supplies necessary to respond to the most common types of disasters. The McLeod County Historic Partnership estimates a net cost savings of over $10,000 between all groups, thanks to sharing this training and disaster preparedness supplies.
By working together to draft response plans, the partnership members will each create more comprehensive and cohesive plans, share ideas and insights, and will be able to do more symbiotically in emergencies by having an innate understanding of each organization:s plans.
$2,500,000 each year is for history partnerships involving multiple organizations, which may include the Minnesota Historical Society, to preserve and enhance access to Minnesota's history and cultural heritage in all regions of the state.
Available upon request. Contact:grants@mnhs.org
The short-term expected impact for this endeavor was written as, :Each of our partner organizations will have the knowledge of how to protect and salvage their cultural materials in an emergency.: This was achieved through the attendance of both disaster preparedness trainings in September and October 2017 (See PDF :Disaster Training Sign-in Sheets:), through the writing sessions that representatives of the partners took part in, and with the completed drafts of Disaster Plans that meet the needs of the individual organizations.
The long-term expected impact was written as, :A culture of preservation preparedness among our county:s organizations.: The partners who took part in this project are adding an item to their bylaws, if it wasn:t already, that their Disaster Preparedness Plan and Disaster Supply Kit will be reviewed annually and that the Disaster Response Team Duties will also be reviewed and reassigned around that same time. The Director of the McLeod County Historic Partnership work to remain abreast with any new develops or theories with artifact- or archive-specific preservation and salvage methods.
The intermediate expected impact was written as, :A savings of $10,000 between all organizations.: By agreeing to share some of the larger, more expensive aspects of such a project, the organizations saved themselves money that can now be spent on outreach and preservation goals. The training led by the Midwest Art Conservation Center cost approximately $4,000; by participating as a group instead of individually, they saved a little more than $8,000. The most expensive, but necessary, piece in the Disaster Kit was a portable generator at $1,395.00. If the three groups had decided to work on their own, it would have resulted in a collective cost of $4,185.00. By working together to prepare for any disaster situations, that single line item was made cheaper by $2,790.00 (See PDF :Disaster Preparedness Spending Report: for full cost breakdown).
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org