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Museum Disasters Series Part 1: Flooding and Wall Collapse at a Museum Storage Facility
Museum Disasters Series Part 1: Flooding and Wall Collapse at a Museum Storage Facility
Watch Recording: YouTube
Recorded: Monday, March 17
Todd Topper shared his experiences from Fall of 2012 when an 8" water main failed under a North Denver off-site museum storage facility. This broken pipe resulted in extensive flooding and an exterior wall collapse. Todd will discuss how preventative measures in warehouse storage system design and emergency response procedures -- as well as some luck -- prevented a complete collections catastrophe.
Todd Topper is the Senior Manager for Collections at the Minnesota Historical Society. Since 1995, much of his work has focused on collections management and registration. The work has taken Todd from his hometown museum in Evansville, Indiana to Atlanta, Georgia, Denver, Colorado, Columbus, Ohio and now St. Paul Minnesota. Within collections management, Todd specializes in storage systems, vault design, and large collection relocations. He recently assisted the Ohio History Connection with their new collections care center design and object relocation planning. When not thinking about museum storage solutions, he is a landscape and still life painter and collage artist.
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