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May 15, 2010
Environmental conditions in historic house museums
On May 14, Conservator John Childs and Team Leader of Property Care Benjamin Haavik presented at the annual conference of the America Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) on the use of mechanical systems in historic house museums to mitigate extremes of relative humidity (RH). The presentation reviewed the failures of complex systems installed in the 1990s to achieve a strict 45% RH and discussed their current work funded by IMLS to simplify four of those systems. read more...
