Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters

Risk Management for the Recovery Project of Bam’s Cultural Heritage 67

the visitors, the experts coming to Bam were the most

enthusiastic. The particular situation in Bam required

that visiting the arg would be without charge. The

employees started keeping records and collecting sta-

tistics on the visitors as well as offering them guidance

during the visit. In this respect one of the main actions

after the earthquake, also praised by the participants

in the april 2004 Workshop, was the building of a

temporary wooden passageway through the debris for

visitors. This wooden structure was of great help for the

safety of visitors and for providing access for experts to

the various parts of the arg.

20. Monitoring. The actions that were carried out according
    to the post-crisis plan immediately after the earthquake
    are briefly listed below:
    
    
    • In order to protect the character of the historic
      buildings of the city of Bam a group of experts
    
    
    
    

Fig. 22–25 Bam, putting the area arround the Arg in order

Figs. 26 and 27 Bam, visitor access