Outgrowth of an international conference held at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, 7-9 November, 2012, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Doerner Institut. Cited from foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.

models to evaluate the risks of damage to objects exposed to varying indoor climate conditions in the past, present, and future / Zara Huijbregts, Marco Martens, Jos van Schijndel and Henk Schellen -- The application of damage functions to future indoor climate predictions / Paul Lankester, Peter Brimblecombe and David Thickett -- Uncertainties in damage assessments of future indoor climates / Gustaf Leijonhufvud, Erik Kjellström, Tor Broström, Jonathan Ashley-Smith and Dario Camuffo -- The influence of the museum environment in controlling insect pests / Robert Child -- Inverse modeling of climate responses of monumental buildings / Rick Kramer, Jos van Schijndel and Henk Schellen -- The moving fluctuation range : a new analytical method for evaluation of climate fluctuations in historic buildings / Stefan Bichlmair, Kristina Holl and Ralf Kilian

Dimitrios Karolidis -- Sustainable climate control for art galleries? : experiences at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery / David Crombie, Chris Bailey, Bernard Connolly, Sonia Jones, Siobhan Watts and Sally Ann Yates -- Solutions for challenging buildings : storage projects at the Science Museum / Marta Leskard and Louisa Burden -- Learning from history : historic indoor climate conditions and climate control strategies / Melanie Eibl and Andreas Burmester -- From artwork to building preservation : some considerations on the 'historical' indoor climate of Villa Reale in Milan / Andrea Luciani, Carlo Manfredi, Davide Del Curto and Luca P. Valisi -- Uncertainties in the interaction between a canvas painting support and moisture / Anna von Reden -- Monitoring complex objects in real display environments - how helpful is it? / Naomi Luxford and David Thickett -- What real museum objects can teach us about the influence of climate conditions / Paul van Duin -- The Oseberg ship : long-term physical-mechanical monitoring in an uncontrolled relative humidity exhibition environment : analytical results and hygromechanical modeling / Paolo Dionisi-Vici, Ottaviano Allegretti, Susan Braovac, Guro Hjulstad, Maria Jensen and Elin Storbekk -- Comparison of indoor climate analysis according to current climate guidelines with the conservational investigation using the example of Linderhof Palace / Kristina Holl -- Quantification, the link to relate climate-induced damage to indoor environments in historic buildings / Charlotta Bylund Melin and Mattias Legnér -- Development of damage functions for copper, silver and enamels on copper / David Thickett, Rebecca Chisholm and Paul Lankester -- Delivering damage functions in enclosures / Paul Lankester and David Thickett -- Stuffing everything we know about mechanical properties into one collection simulation / Stefan Michalski -- Climate risk assessment in museums / Marco Martens and Henk Schellen -- The use of computer simulation

Allowable microclimatic variations in museums and historic buildings : reviewing the guidelines / Łukasz Bratasz -- Towards a common understanding of standards? / Jane Henderson and Shumeng Dai -- Conservation of cultural heritage : European standards on the environment / Jesper Stub Johnsen -- Collections demography : stakeholders' views on the lifetime of collections / Catherine Dillon, William Lindsay, Joel Taylor, Kalliopi Fouseki, Nancy Bell and Matija Strlič -- The limits of Garry Thomson's museums temperate zone : can they be enlarged? / Luis Efrem Elias Casanovas, Vasco Peixoto de Freitas, Cláudia Ferreira and Sílvia Oliveira Sequeira -- Acoustic emission monitoring : on the path to rational strategies for collection care / Michał Łukomski, Janusz Czop, Marcin Strojecki and Łukasz Bratasz -- How the usual museum climate recommendations endanger our cultural heritage / Andreas Schulze -- Field-tested methodology for optimizing climate management / Jeremy Linden, James M. Reilly and Peter Herzog -- Evaluation of different approaches of microclimate control in cultural heritage buildings / Tor Broström, Tomas Vyhlídal, Goran Simeunovic, Poul Klenz Larsen and Pavel Zítek -- A critical look at the use of HVAC systems in the museum environment / Edgar Neuhaus -- The role of historic house heating systems in collections climate control at the National Trust / Nigel Blades, Hazel Jessep and Katy Lithgow -- A museum storage facility controlled by solar energy / Morten Ryhl-Svendsen, Lars Aasbjerg Jensen, Poul Klenz Larsen, Benny Bøhm and Tim Padfield -- Passively conditioned zero-energy storage for cultural properties and archival material / Lars Klemm -- New meets old : the requirements and limits of new collection facilities at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin / Peter Bartsch, Christiane Quaisser, Peter Giere, Arwid Theuer-Kock and Norbert Feck -- The use of underground structures as a solution towards sustainable museums in the Mediterranean basin /

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