Register for our virtual event on Monday, March 17 at 12:00 pm: Museum Disasters Series Part 1: Flooding and Wall Collapse at a Museum Storage Facility. In this lunch hour webinar, collections manager Todd Topper will share his experiences from Fall of 2012 when an 8" water main failed under a North Denver off-site museum storage facility. This broken pipe resulted in extensive flooding and an exterior wall collapse. Todd will discuss how preventative measures in warehouse storage system design and emergency response procedures -- as well as some luck -- prevented a complete collections catastrophe.
Todd Topper is the Senior Manager for Collections at the Minnesota Historical Society. Since 1995, much of his work has focused on collections management and registration. The work has taken Todd from his hometown museum in Evansville, Indiana to Atlanta, Georgia, Denver, Colorado, Columbus, Ohio and now St. Paul Minnesota. Within collections management, Todd specializes in storage systems, vault design, and large collection relocations. He recently assisted the Ohio History Connection with their new collections care center design and object relocation planning. When not thinking about museum storage solutions, he is a landscape and still life painter and collage artist.
This program is free, but please register in advance
at this link.
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Megan Narvey
Outreach Conservator
Minnesota Historical Society
megan.brakobnarvey@mnhs.org------------------------------