Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts will use its grant to lead the Pennsylvania Cultural Resilience Network (PACRN), a two-year project to develop, coordinate, and consolidate regional efforts to address disaster preparedness and response needs at museums and historic sites through new programs and resources. PACRN offers an innovative, holistic approach to statewide emergency preparedness for cultural institutions, designed to be easily replicated or adapted in other states or regions. More than 300 museum and historic site professionals at sites throughout Pennsylvania are expected to show measurable gains in knowledge level and confidence as measured by pre-and post-evaluation forms in the education programs comprising the PACRN initiative.