Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management

Master of Museums Studies

PROPOSED RISK MANAGEMENT PLANNING

STUDY IN MUSEUMS
Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master degree of Museum Studies

Prepared By Under supervision

Mahmoud Fathy AbdAllah Badawi Dr. Dr.
Mary Kupelian Tamer Abbas
Associate Professor, Faculty of Associate Professor, Faculty of
Tourism and Hotel Management Tourism and Hotel Management
Cairo, 2020 Helwan University Helwan University
Content
1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

2 INTRODUCTION

3 CHAPTER ONE: Terms Related to Risk Management

4 CHAPTER TWO: Identifying Risks in Museums

5 CHAPTER THREE: The Risk Assessment in Museum

6 CHAPTER FOUR: The Process of Planning for Risk Management in

Museums

7 CONCLUSION
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Special and grateful acknowledgement are expressed to supervisor Dr. Mary Kupelian, Associate. Professor, Faculty of tourism
and hotel management – Helwan university, Egypt, for here continuous help and giving me the support to do this research and for
providing invaluable guidance throughout this research. His dynamism, vision, sincerity and motivation have deeply inspired me. It
was great privilege and honor of work and study under here guidance.
Special and sincere thanks to Dr. Tamer Abbass Associate. Professor, Faculty of tourism and hotel management – Helwan University,
Egypt for giving me the support to do this research and for providing invaluable guidance throughout this research. His dynamism,
vision, sincerity and motivation have deeply inspired me. It was great privilege and honor of work and study under his guidance.
I would like to offer my special thanks to Dr. Ali Omer, Dr. Rania Ali Maher, Dr. Noha Shalaby and all professors of museum
studies at faculty of hotel management at Helwan University, Egypt, they helped us a lot in this program and facilitated a lot of tasks
to achieve this research.
Special and grateful acknowledgement to all Ministry Of Archeology, and Helwan University who provided me an opportunity to
join this program, helping and supported me to achieve my success in my thesis.
Special thanks to all staff at Grand Egyptian museum: Eng. Atef Moftah the General supervisor of the Grand Egyptian museum project,
Dr, Hussien Kamal the general manager of Conservation center in the Grand Egyptian museum (GEM-CC) for his support and advices
and his very useful discussion, Also my colleague Khaled Abd elrady and Amr Mostafa for their help.
Special thanks for my wife for her patient, courage and support, also my mother, my father and my brothers and sisters.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
 Introduction

Museums are facing different and many risks differ from place to place
and differ in the scale of severity or its frequency which require a decision to
keep the museum as safe as possible from these risks, not only a decision
but also planning and strategies that keep the collection as its value, these
risks might be natural disasters such as floods, storms or human activities
such as fire or harmful handling for the objects or vandalism.

INTRODUCTION
 RISK
In simple terms, risk is the possibility
of something bad happening.

CHAPTER ONE Terms Related to Risk Management

 HAZARD
An agent which has the potential to cause harm to a
vulnerable target. Hazards can be both natural or
human induced. Sometimes natural hazards such as
floods and drought can be caused by human activity.

CHAPTER ONE Terms Related to Risk Management

CHAPTER ONE Terms Related to Risk Management
 EMERGENCY

Is a situation that poses an immediate risk

to health, life, property.

CHAPTER ONE Terms Related to Risk Management

 DISASTER
Is a serious disruption occurring over a short or long period
of time that causes widespread human, material, economic
or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the
affected community or society to cope using its own
resources.

CHAPTER ONE Terms Related to Risk Management

 Museum and risk management concept

Risk management involves the identification, measurement,

control and minimization of risks within your organization. It is a
process that requires ongoing monitoring and evaluation. The
purpose of risk management is to make the museum, gallery
or keeping place a safe place to work in and visit.

CHAPTER ONE Terms Related to Risk Management

 Ten Agents of Deterioration

1 2 3 4 5
Physical Thieves, Fire Water Pests
Forces Vandals

Poor Handling Poor security, poor maintenance Flood, rain and Poor
breach of rules leaks housekeeping.

Effects Effects Effects Effects Effects

Abrasion, Total or partial Smoke, Loss of media, Physical

breakages loss discoloration mold and damage or
and losses and loss physical loss of
damage. material,
contamination

CHAPTER TWO Identifying Risks in Museum

 Ten Agents of Deterioration

6 7 8 9 10
Incorrect
Contaminan Light Incorrect Disassociation
relative
ts temperatur humidity.
e
Pollution, poor Daylight, no Unstable Unstable Poor labeling,
housekeeping UV filters environment environment misplacing
items.
Effects Effects Effects Effects Effects

Chemical Accelerated Accelerated Mould, Loss of

changes, dirt degradation, degradation, embrittlement. information,
fading embrittlement. loss of
coherence of
objects or
collection.

CHAPTER TWO Identifying Risks in Museum

 Risk Assessment
Include real specifying, calculation,
and estimation of risks to museum
objects and collections. It allows
you to examine the risks that you or
your organization face, and helps
you decide whether or not to move
forward with a decision.

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 Types of Risks
3

2.5

1.5

0.5

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Gradual Sever Catastrophic

Constant Sporadic Rare

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 Risk Magnitude
Severity Probability
Severity on the risk The probability of
matrix represents occurrence of each
the severity of the Undesired Outcome
most likely can be thought of as
consequence of a the bridge between
particular hazard the Severity and the
occurrence. Risk.

Risk magnitude
Is just the sum of the Severity
Magnitude and the Likelihood
Magnitude.

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 VALUE PIE
THE PIE CHARTS HELP TO VISUALIZE THE
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE
DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THE
HERITAGE ASSET.

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 Risk Assessment Scale (ABC)

Score
A For events frequency.

Score The fractional loss of value to

B each affected item.

The value of all items that will be

Score affected by the event or cumulative
C process.

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 Prioritizing of Risks in Museums
Prioritizing is the process of deciding which
actions will have the most significant
impact, which are the most important, and
which are the most feasible.

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 The Process of Planning for Risks in Museums

CHAPTER THREE The Risk Assessment in Museums

 SOME FEATURES OF RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN IN
THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM CONSERVATION
CENTER (GEM-CC) CONSERVATION CENTER.

CHAPTER FOUR The Process of Planning for Risks in Museums

 Light

CHAPTER FOUR The Process of Planning for Risks in Museums

 Relative Humidity and Temperature

SILCA GEL

Data Logger

CHAPTER FOUR The Process of Planning for Risks in Museums

 Fire Alarm System

FM 200 Fire
system.

The Manual Fire

Fire Alarm
Extinguisher
System

Automatic
Manual Fire
Sprinklers
Alarm

CHAPTER FOUR The Process of Planning for Risks in Museums

 Self-safety for the Employees

Emergency
Dosh

Hand
Sterilizer

Fume Hood

CHAPTER FOUR The Process of Planning for Risks in Museums

CONCLUSION Risk management for cultural
heritage institutions has grown greatly
Time spent in preparing for a disaster can save
within the past century.
precious time within the recovery and response
phases and help mitigate the damage done by
the hazard. The publication of international and national
guidelines on preparation and response for
The preparedness, mitigation, response and such events greatly aids cultural heritage
recovery processes developed through careful institutions within the development and
research, established communication implementation of disaster risk plans.
channels, and awareness with everyone who
interacts with the collections can save precious
time and resources for museum institutions.
one among the foremost
important is that the uniqueness
of the plan; each plan should be
specific to every museum.
Museum can face many hazards, natural or
man made hazards and every museum must
Every museum must analyze and
study the hazards that can effect on the
assess all the possible risks to the
museum and the collection and gather all the
museum and the collection in order to
available data related to these risks such as
prioritize them to make
their severity and probability.
comprehensive and successful risk
management plan.

CONCLUSION
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