National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi, Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal and ICOM India jointly organised a National Seminar on ‘Disaster Preparedness and Post Disaster Management in Museums’ on Thursday.
Total 39 delegates & representative from all over India from various museums/ university/ institute etc participated in the seminar.
Secretary of ICOM India Prof Ambika Patel welcomed the guest Vice President of ICOM India Prof Abduraheem K, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi Naaz Rizvi, Director of Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal Rakesh Dubey, President, ICOM India Reena Dewan, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Director, Union Ministry of Culture and all delegates & invitees and briefed about the seminar. The inaugural session ended with the vote of thanks by Scientist in-Charge of RMNH, Bhopal & Treasure, ICOM India Manoj Kumar Sharma
During the Key Note Speeches, Director of Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal Rakesh Dubey informed about the Disaster Preparedness. He told about the hazard, prevention and mitigation to understand the basics of disaster preparedness. Dubey informed about the influence of external factors or challenges.
In the continuation, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Director, Union Ministry of Culture detailed about ‘Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Museums’. He detailed about the Bharhut archeological site. In the beginning of the first session, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi Naaz Rizvi detailed about Post Disaster Management in Museums. She detailed the Disaster Management Cycle as Pre disaster, during disaster & Post disaster.
She explained the Recovery, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Development as part of post disaster.
Naaz Rizvi also detailed the type of impacts of Disasters likes Physical impacts, Social impacts, Physiological impacts, Socio demographical impacts, Social impacts and Political impacts. Director, NMNH also detailed about the fire incidents happened in April 2016 NMNH, New Delhi.
Vice President of ICOM India Prof Abduraheem K explained about the introduction of Disaster Management Guidelines for Museums. Suyash Dwivedi from Wikimedia, Bhopal informed about the GLAM through their presentation. The session was concluded with speech of Reena Dewan, President, ICOM India.
The panel discussion held on the topic ‘Situating the Museums in India and the Role of ICOM India’ in the second session.
In the end of seminar a Annual General Body Meeting of ICOM India was arranged and President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasure and other members of ICOM India attended the meeting.