This postgraduate program is intended for professionals currently working or aspiring to work in museums, exhibition centers, and public or private galleries, including decision-makers, commissioners, curators, conservators, registrars, educators, restorers, public relations personnel, art transporters, and others interested in the field.
Museum Security
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A museum, or an exhibition center, is a particularly demanding environment where sometimes divergent interests intersect: fulfilling the organization’s primary mission to encourage and facilitate the enjoyment of its collection, while ensuring that such enjoyment can be carried out under conditions of adequate safety for people, artworks, and facilities, striving to avoid jeopardizing that enjoyment for future generations.
These institutions, given the wide variety of types they may encompass as well as the diversity of their target audiences, require a holistic approach to security that goes beyond mere resource allocation and calls upon all organizational functions to efficiently and effectively manage the various present dimensions.
Acts of activists causing damage to exhibited works, lending artworks to organizations lacking adequate security levels, thefts from storage areas, armed robbery and theft, natural disasters, and cybercrime are among the many situations that, combined with the often incalculable historical, social, and economic value of the work, compel museological organizations and similar institutions to maintain a constant balance between visitor comfort and the responsibility to safeguard the exhibited pieces. This, together with the perennial scarcity of resources, demands management guided by best practices.
- To provide structured, systematized, and specific knowledge about the process of producing and implementing security in exhibition spaces for works of art, taking into account the various involved roles.
- To acquire skills in the design, planning, specification of resources, procurement, implementation, and evaluation of security system outcomes.
- To provide security management strategies for museological operations using best practices.
Presentation
4 hours
The Organizational and Operational Environment of Art Exhibitions
4 hours
Threat Analysis and Risk Management
16 hours
Design of a Security System
8 hours
System Organization
24 hours
Security Systems
8 hours
Security Planning
24 hours
Artworks Handling
8 hours
Introduction to Cybersecurity
10 hours
Legislation and Regulations; Final Assessment
4 hours
António Freitas
António Paixão
Paulo Macedo
Paulo Salgueiro
Rui Pereira
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