Abstract
The cultural heritage community worldwide is facing new challenges and hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognising the pandemic’s uneven impact across institutions, places, organisations and companies as well as across career positions, we conducted a survey with an aim to better understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. The survey focused on documenting long and short-term effects of the lockdowns and ensuing closures adding enduring challenges faced by the sector, both in Australia and globally, which predate the pandemic that continue or are exacerbated by it. Moreover, the survey mapped potential knock-on effects from previous or ongoing crises (such as bushfires, floods, political strife). Our aim was to gain a holistic understanding of the ways in which the cultural heritage sector is currently being affected, and what its long-term concerns and projections are. The ultimate objective is to document this moment in time to create a set of recommendations for adaptive strategies to similar future crises and ‘readiness’ procedures relating to the subsequent economic fallout and likely ongoing recession.
Presenters
Ania Kotarba MorleyLecturer in Archaeology, College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus: What Museums Post Pandemic?
KEYWORDS
Covid impact, Survey data, Knock-on effects, Impacts, Short-term, Long-term
