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Museum Security and Protection : A Handbook for Cultural Heritage Institutions, PDF eBook

Museum Security and Protection : A Handbook for Cultural Heritage Institutions PDF

Edited by Robert Burke, David Liston

Part of the Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management series

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The ICMS Handbook is acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures. It was first published as A Basic Guide to Museum Security, and is now fully revised, enlarged and updated. The manual covers: general principles security, theft and burglary: security personnel; training; collection management and transport; disaster planning; fire and environmental hazards; checklist of security procedures. It is designed to operate in all conditiones adn sizes of museum, not merely those with elaborate electronic security. It stresses that good basic principles are teh key to effective protection from hazard.

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