Workshop: Assessing and Managing Risks to Collections

12.09.2025
Rathgen-Forschungslabor

The Rathgen-Forschungslabor – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin cordially invites to a four-day workshop introducing the internationally recognized Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model (CPRAM) developed by Dr. Robert Waller. This preventive conservation tool supports institutions in systematically identifying and evaluating risks to collections and in effectively managing them with limited resources.

Workshop Contents

• How to identify and prioritize risks using the 10 Agents of Deterioration
• How to quantify damage scenarios and develop actionable strategies,
• How to make the most effective use of limited resources to sustainably reduce losses.

The workshop consists of four sessions (5 to 6 hours each): three days of participatory learning, followed by a practical day focusing on the participants’ own institutions.

Workshop “The Cultural Property Risk Analysis Model (CPRAM)”

Date: 18 through 21 November 2025
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Venue: Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Remise, Spandauer Damm 7, 14059 Berlin (Charlottenburg)
Language: English (with German subtitles); questions may be asked in German.
Participants: maximum 40 persons
Application: Please send a short motivation letter (100 to 200 words, subject line: Motivationsschreiben CPRAM 2025) by 31 October 2025 (deadline extended) to:
cpram[at]smb.spk-berlin.de