Fire Safety in Museum Buildings: A Case Study of Perak Museum, Taiping, Malaysia

Fire Safety Management System for Heritage Buildings in Malaysia

“…According to Salleh (2009), out of 9 different states, 37 heritage buildings that previously or currently been adapted uses as museums having poor fire safety management and majority facing 17 leading problems such as administration of the buildings did not apply any fire safety plan into the buildings, they don't even have fire safety certificate and clearly not having direct link system to the nearest fire station which contributes major problem when in the event of fire. Besides, most of these researchers also highlighted that there is no competence person in charge to specifically handle health and safety issues as to guide the administration towards achieving a safe heritage building.…”

“…In the context of historic buildings, until today, the fire caused damages and also destroyed many historic buildings in Malaysia which given a total loss approximately up to RM5 million (Salleh, 2009). It is believed that the main reason of this fire disaster in historic and heritage buildings is due to lack of fire safety awareness among the public and property owners are still at the unacceptable level.…”

Fire Safety in Museums: Simulation of Fire Scenarios for Development of Control Evacuation Schemes from the Winter Palace of the Hermitage

“…The need to manage evacuations in a museum is an undeniable fact [3][4][5][6][7][8][31][32][33]. The conducted research has shown, using example of the Winter Palace building, that the task of developing an evacuation route in case of fire in museum buildings is multi-criteria.…”

“…Fires also pose a danger to the contents of museums that contain objects of world cultural heritage that are easily involved in the combustion process (old books, manuscripts, clothing, antique furniture, paintings, graphics, objects of artistic crafts, etc.) [3][4][5][6][7]. For example, in 2018, a fire that lasted more than five hours destroyed almost 90% of the collections at the National Museum of Brazil.…”

“…For example, in 2018, a fire that lasted more than five hours destroyed almost 90% of the collections at the National Museum of Brazil. In Malaysia, between 2001 and 2015, three museums experienced fires that destroyed buildings and their contents [3,6]. Museums are often located in cultural heritage sites; in which case, the goal of fire safety is also to minimize damage to the building itself.…”