Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee we would like to invite you to join us for an international conference on museum climate, climate change and future challenges related to insect pests, fungi, increasing energy costs and sustainable green museums. The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 9-11th of April, 2025.
The three-day meeting will take place in the center of Vienna and is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum Vienna, the Kunsthistorische Museum, the University of Applied Arts, the Akademie of Art and the Austrian Academy of Science.
This meeting will be an international forum to gather conservators, building facility managers, climate researchers, entomologist and microbiologist from around the globe, to share and discuss their experiences and scientific findings on indoor museum climate. The conference is focused on fine art, ethnological and natural history museums, but also including archives, libraries, historic buildings and palaces. We will present the newest predictions for future climate models, interesting case studies from large museums. The conference also marks the end of a four year research project in Austria, funded by the Austrian Academy of Science on “Modelling future climate change on museum pests and fungi”. We will present some exiting new results from this project and discuss it with the scientific community. There will be some exiting excursions on the last day of the program and some really special evening events…
In this conference we want to bring together conservators, facility managers, climate researchers, building physicists and (micro)-biologists to share results and discuss the future indoor climate in museums.
Dr. Pascal Querner, NHM (Chair)
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