Let’s Get Prepared

Let’s Get Prepared is a pilot program with Service Needs Strategic Funding through Create NSW. The initial phase will allow us to deliver a series of disaster planning workshops in 8 regions across the state between 2023 and 2025.

Recent flooding in the Northern Rivers and Central West, as well as catastrophic bushfires across the state in 2019 and 2020, have demonstrated a need to rethink the scale of disasters and our approaches to disaster planning. As these extreme climate events occur with greater regularity and greater intensity, museums, galleries, artists and communities face unprecedented challenges to safeguard our history and culture. The economic, social and cultural cost of not being prepared to face these challenges is incalculable.

Let’s Get Prepared is a series of workshops and resources to help you navigate the challenges of disaster planning. Presented regionally by Museums & Galleries of NSW for museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural organisations as well as others in the cultural sector, the workshop is tailored to the region. It covers traditional disaster planning as well as theory, practical examples, cost and resource effective measures and focuses on collaboration and networking.

The first workshop session focuses on planning for disasters – understanding the risks, the resources that you need, the people, supplies and guiding steps during response and recovery. The second follow up sessions allows for practical salvage techniques to be demonstrated and experienced with mock objects in disaster scenarios.