Table 2 Sampling locations in the selected European museums with the description of their collection objects and the environmental management conditions
From: Indoor air pollutants and their seasonal monitoring in European museums
Museum (no. of locations) | Display case (DC) | Display room (DR) | Storage enclosure (SE) | Storage room (SR) | Additional location | Additional location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FST (6) Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Florence | Scientific instruments (wood, metal, ceramic) inside wooden DC (18.2 m3) | Natural ventilation, historical building | Herbarium in cardboard box | Inside wooden cupboard with natural ventilation (0.24 m3) | Additional DC (ADDC): polymeric plant models in wooden DC | Additional DR (ADDR): Natural ventilation, historical building (10.2 m3) |
GGH (6) Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice | Sculpture in modern DC | Climate control, renovated historical building | Painting in a modern frame | Climate control | Outside DC (BE) | Outside SE (NE) |
MB (6) Chieti State Archive, Abruzzo | – | – | SE1: documents inside metal box SE2: documents inside synthetic material box | SR1,4: archive of metal shelves with documents, no ventilation SR2,3: historical books on metal shelves of archive, natural ventilation | ||
NMH (4) Hungarian National Museum, Budapest | Ceramics, paper, leather in wooden DC (7.6 m3) | Library room in historical building, ventilated daily through windows (776 m3) | Acetate film negatives and paper in metal storage drawer (0.03 m3) | Climate controlled photo storage room (547 m3) | ||
NMS (4) National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana | Silk and silver thread object in modern DC (0.72 m3) | Climate control with filtration, new building (95 m3) | Mixed materials in metal storage drawer (0.06 m3) | Climate controlled mixed storage room, filtration (186 m3) | ||
PPD (3) Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | DC1: Artist’s workroom—large display case with many objects, no ventilation (sampled in multiple spots) (72.1 m3) | – | PVC design pieces in wooden crate | – | DC2: documents and small mixed objects in modern DC (1.2 m3) | |
QB (4) Quai Branly Museum, Paris | Metal and textile objects in modern DC | Climate control, new building | Wool and plastic in wooden box | Climate control |