ABSTRACT

The museum, library and archive buildings which contains knowledge and cultural heritage of humanity can be affected by emergency situations or disasters, such as earthquakes, fires and floods. The collections that are existed at these buildings serve as a bridge from past to future. The reducing of potential risks of these buildings and their content should not be ignored by administrative personnel. However, such a large number of visitors and employees are regularly existed at the same time in these buildings. Mass protection (human and collection) should be adopted and proactive measures should be taken before any kind of disasters. In recent years, extensive studies carried out about various risk mitigation techniques at the museum and library buildings. Disaster oriented risk reduction techniques should be examined and preferred for historic buildings, modern buildings and buildings to be constructed. In this study, preventive measures have been proposed for museum, library and archive buildings for likely emergency situations.