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# OMG…Now I Know: How to Protect Your Antique Statues During an Earthquake
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/getty-earthquake-video/
- Published: 2012-05-15T18:48:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:39.000Z
- Description: The Getty Museum has come up with a video to demonstrate how to save your precious sculptures during an earthquake. Thanks, Getty!
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, earthquake, Getty Museum, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/05/getty-earthquake-video-home.gif "getty-earthquake-video-HOME")](http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/all-shook-up-protecting-art-in-an-earthquake/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Yes, the Getty Museum is in Southern California, so it seems natural they will be concerned about a potential earthquake that could shatter their precious holdings.

Now the Getty team has come up with [a video](http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/all-shook-up-protecting-art-in-an-earthquake/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to demonstrate how to save your precious sculptures that I’m sure you all have. I, for one, have been wondering how to properly anchor my ancient Greek busts and now I know. *Thanks, Getty!*

I’m sure most of this can be translated to preserve art from other eras but then again would anyone notice if a [John Chamberlain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FChamberlain%5F%28sculptor%29?ref=hyperallergic.com) fell over and got dented? Though this does make me appreciate the genius of Félix González-Torres’s [candy](http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/152961?ref=hyperallergic.com) installations (*earthquake proof!*)