Essays about: "museum climate"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words museum climate.

1. 1. Arctica Islandica – Annually Banded Mollusc Offers High Temporal Resolution Record Into End Of North Sea Little Ice Age

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Eilidh Towers; [2022]
   Keywords : sclerochronology; Arctica islandica; palaeoenvironments; Little Ice Age; radiocarbon reservoir effect;

   Abstract : Sclerochronology affirms the well-established fact that banded growth increments in marine molluscs accurately record oscillations in climate and environment for the past millennia or more. This study considers how such records can enhance understanding of environmental shifts across the 18th to 20th centuries. READ MORE

3. 2. MICROCLIMATE FRAMES FOR PAINTINGS ON CANVAS A literature review with a case study from Nationalmuseum

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

   Author : Sofia Lundsten; [2021-10-28]
   Keywords : Microclimate frames; preventive conservation; humidity buffering;

   Abstract : The use of microclimate frames for paintings has become more common in the past decades, and it is a good way of protecting climate sensitive paintings during transport, loans, and exhibitions. This study is a literature review that aims to describe the overall practice of mounting canvas paintings in microclimate frames, as well as describe practices at Nationalmuseum, Sweden’s largest art gallery, in more detail. READ MORE

4. 3. The Choirproject Considerations for the storage of a composite contemporary artwork: Tilda Lovell’s The Choirproject

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

   Author : Lee Andersson; [2021-07-16]
   Keywords : conservation; rubber; anoxia; cold storage; Gothenburg Museum of Art;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates alternatives for storing of the contemporary artwork Tilda Lovell’s artwork The Choirproject by artist Tilda Lovell. The piece consists of a video and nine sculptures in composite materials, predominantly bones but also notably a rubber balloon and wax. READ MORE

5. 4. The influence of passive measures on the highly demanding room climate requirements of a museum building in terms of sustainability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Energi och byggnadsdesign; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Jasmin Jost; [2021]
   Keywords : museum; museum climate; conservation requirements; climate risk assessment; indoor environment; thermal comfort; thermal mass; moisture buffering; hygroscopic materials; life cycle assessment LCA ; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : In the exhibition space of a museum, a compromise between the requirements for the preservation of cultural goods and thermal comfort criteria for visitors has to be applied. Such a high level of control without allowing fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity poses a big challenge to the air conditioning systems to maintain these very specific hygrothermal conditions. READ MORE

6. 5. Whom Does the Object Call for? : Encoding activism in exhibitions in Sweden

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Giuseppina Addo; [2021]
   Keywords : Encoding decoding; Tingens Metod; exhibition production; Museums; Activism;

   Abstract : The museum of the twenty-first century is operating against the backdrop of ongoing social concerns pertaining to climate change, gender inequalities and racial tensions, and often exhibitions become the contact zones where those expressions are formulated. This research analyses how a democratic and inclusive philosophical perspective such as the Tigens Metod (or method of the thing) is executed by museum professionals. READ MORE