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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 annually, at Instituut Collectie Nederland (1999), Oxford Brookes University (2001), The National Museum of Denmark (2001), University of East Anglia (2003), CNR-ISAC Padova (2004), and Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute (WKI) Braunschweig (2006). During all meetings, the developments in research into indoor air pollution and conservation were discussed in an informal, yet serious, atmosphere. The latest meeting was held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, in April 2008. Abstracts from this meeting are now online (link below).
Next IAQ meeting will be held in Chalon-sur-Saone (Burgundy, France) from the 21th to the 23rd of April 2010. The call for abstracts for this 9th Indoor Air Quality meeting (IAQ2010) is now open. The deadline for abstract submitting is November 15th, 2009. Please find all information on the conference website: http://www.chateaudegermolles.fr/spip.php?rubrique44 |
Online Presentation Abstracts from Working Group Meetings:
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From the round-table discussions at the meeting in Glasgow, 1998. Photo: Jean Tétreault |
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Indoor Air Pollution in Museums and Archives Website: Main Index
September, 2008
