Evaluation of the Performance of Museums During the Loma Prieta Earthquake

这是1989年10月洛马普列塔地震后的一个调查项目，旨在从这次破坏性事件中吸取教训。本项目将从价值和破坏模式两方面研究地震对博物馆藏品的破坏和记录。将选出几个重要的博物馆，并根据记录的地面运动确定其特定地点的艺术品/支持系统响应标准。然后，响应标准和损害调查将用于为博物馆内容制定未来减轻地震损失措施的建议。这项研究将提高我们的能力，以减少博物馆在其不可替代的藏品中因地震造成的损失。

This is a post Loma Prieta earthquake (Oct. 1989) investigation project in learning from this damaging event. This projects will study the damage and document the museum contents losses during the earthquake in terms of both value and failure mode. Several critical museums will be selected and their site- specific art object/support system response criteria will be determined from the recorded ground motions. The response criteria and damage survey will then be used to develop recommendations for future seismic loss mitigation measures for museum contents. This study will improve our ability to reduce the losses of museums in their irreplaceable collections due to earthquakes.