Risk Management and Emergency Plan for Collections Case Study: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and its PROCOERS Plan

Abstract

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is a modern, contemporary Spanish museum on an international scale. Its Collections Emergency Protection Plan (PROCOERS Plan) is a comprehensive management system for the entire museum that aims to provide an effective response to the protection of the works hosted by the Museum at its four venues in the event of an emergency situation. The PROCOERS Plan integrates a dynamic collection data infrastructure model that is used to analyze works and spaces globally and dynamically in real time. The advantages of this model under development are, among others, the integration and updating of all the necessary information with sectorised access possibilities in a single system, the capacity to predict different risk situations linked to the different variables, the anticipation of different solutions or the obtaining of proposals for action to facilitate decision-making in the event of an emergency.