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A two day conference entitled Museum Pollution : Detection and Mitigation of Carbonyls was held at Strathclyde University on the 17-18 June 1998. Over 30 delegates from the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada and the US attended. Several carbonyl pollution issues were discussed and a number of actions were proposed.
The initiative to have the 1998 meeting resulted in setting up a working group and the momentum that was gained has been consolidated during the following years.
Since 1998, meetings have been held frequently; at Instituut Collectie Nederland (1999), Oxford Brookes University (2001), The National Museum of Denmark (2001), University of East Anglia (2003), CNR-ISAC Padova (2004), Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute (WKI) Braunschweig (2006), Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (2008), Chalon-sur-Saône (2010), London (2012), Prague (2014), Birmingham (2016), Krakow (2018), Antwerp (2020), Ljubljana (2022) and New York (2024).
During all meetings, the developments in research into indoor air pollution and conservation were discussed in an informal, yet serious, atmosphere.

LATEST CONFERENCE:
The Department of Scientific Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City hosted the the 16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality in Heritage and Historic Environments, IAQ 2024, on 18-20 November 2024.
The Abstracts Booklet is now available online: IAQ2024_abstractbooklet.pdf
NEXT CONFERENCE will be organized by The Royal Danish Academy, Institute of Conservation, and is to be held in Copenhagen sometime in late 2026. The exact dates are still to be settled, but it will probably be sometime in November. Updates on this, call for abstracts, etc., will be posted here in due time.