Cultural Heritage Protection

–A New Vision, A New Feeling, Last Way of Action

Friday, May 3, 2024

12 - 1:30 PM ET

Cultural heritage protection encompasses efforts to safeguard and preserve a society's heritage's tangible and intangible aspects, including historical sites, artifacts, traditions, languages, and customers. This protection is essential for maintaining a sense of identity, continuity, and connection with the past.

The fire at Notre Dame on April 15, 2019 showed that a disaster affecting a world-renowned cultural heritage could lead to international trauma. A consideration could then be established with conviction for a type of disaster which is not new but which until then had often been relegated to the background. However, actions have already been taken to take into account this type of disaster and the fire of Notre Dame has allowed them to develop even more and reflections on the processes to be put in place during cultural disasters.

Join MANY and Stéphane Ceccaldi, Expert Officer, Cultural Heritage Protection for the Service Départmental d'Incendie et de Secours des Yvelines (SDIS) on Friday, May 3 at 12 PM EST. Ceccaldi, who is the Fire Project Manager at Château de Versailles since 2020 after being Fire Chief for Château de Versailles for fifteen years, will share information on different kinds of disasters and challenges, as well as new technical approaches to these disasters –including building protections, operation documents, and training and awareness.

Ceccaldi will share an assessment can be made to date of what is envisaged in France as anticipation measures to protect cultural heritage and take it into account during the course of a disaster and will be presented at the webinar.

Virtual program is free; advance registration is required.

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