Morten Ryhl-Svendsen
Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1967, in Odense, Denmark. 1991, Art photography study at Samsø Folkehøjskole 1995, Konserveringstekniker (BSc) from the Graphic Art Department, School of Conservation, Copenhagen; Thesis work on preservational concerns when exhibiting photographic artworks 1995-97, Conservator at the Danish Museet for Fotokunst (The Museum of Photographic Art) 2001, Cand.Scient.Cons (MSc) from the Master Programme, School of Conservation, Copenhagen; thesis work on detection of carboxylic acids from construction materials in the museum environment Since January 2001 I have been employed as Research assistant at the Conservation Department laboratory of the National Museum of Denmark working with the indoor climate in the collection areas of the National Museum. I'm also the webmaster of the Conservation Department website.

Photo: Karin Bonde Johansen © 1999

Besides my work at the National Museum I lecture about Preventive Conservation & Indoor Air Quality and Climate at the Danish School of Conservation.

I'm a member of the ICOM-CC workgroups "Photographic Records" and "Preventive Conservation", the Indoor Air Pollution Workgroup (IAP), and I'm co-chair of the ISIAQ Task Force on Indoor Air Quality and Climate in Cultural and Heritage Institutions.

My personal interests includes various fields of science, like robots & artificial life, space & rocket science, and ecological house building. I enjoy music styles like indie and techno, and I'm very interested in the modern art scene.

I'm married to Karin Bonde Johansen, who is a moviefilm conservator at The Danish Film Institute. We live in Copenhagen. We have two sons: Kristoffer who was born i 1998, and Rasmus who was born in 2003.

Selected publications:

Ryhl-Svendsen, 2003: "Indoor air pollution in museum display cases". Healthy Buildings 2003, Preprints: Singapore 7-11 December (Vol. 1), ISIAQ, pp. 189-192.

Ryhl-Svendsen & Glastrup, 2003: "SPME-GC/MS analysis of organic acids in indoor museum environments". Healthy Buildings 2003, Preprints: Singapore 7-11 December (Vol. 1), ISIAQ, pp. 193-197.

Ryhl-Svendsen, Padfield, Smith & De Santis, 2003: "The indoor climate in historic buildings without mechanical ventilation". Healthy Buildings 2003, Preprints: Singapore 7-11 December (Vol. 2), ISIAQ, pp. 278-283

Pedersen & Ryhl-Svendsen, 2003: "Indoor Air Quality in a Photo Archive Without Climate Control. A Case Story". Indoor Air Quality in Museums and Historic Properties (IAQ2003). Presentation Abstracts and Additional Notes, University of East Anglia, Norwich, April 28th-29th 2003. http://iaq.dk/iap/iaq2003/2003_03.htm

Ryhl-Svendsen, 2003: "The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. An investigation of Dust in the Exhibition". Indoor Air Quality in Museums and Historic Properties (IAQ2003). Presentation Abstracts and Additional Notes, University of East Anglia, Norwich, April 28th-29th 2003. http://iaq.dk/iap/iaq2003/2003_18.htm

Ryhl-Svendsen & Padfield, 2003: "Praeventiv konservering, at forebygge er bedre end at helbrede". Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark 2003, pp. 101-117. (In Danish)

Ryhl-Svendsen, 2003: An introduction to the factors which deteriorates photographic materials, and to basic preventive conservation. Preservation and Promotion of Photographic Archives in West Africa / Preservation et promotion des Archives Photographiques en Afrique de l'Ouest, West African Museums Programme (WAMP), Postprint: Saint-Louis, Senegal January 1999, pp. 99-105
Internet version: http://iaq.dk/papers/wamp_photo.htm

Ryhl-Svendsen & Glastrup, 2002: "Acetic acid and formic acid concentrations in the museum environment measured by SPME-GC/MS". Atmospheric Environment 36/24, pp. 3909-3916

Ryhl-Svendsen, 2001: "Luftschadestoffe in Museen, Eine Einführung in Wirkungsweise, Monitoring und Kontrolle", Restauro 8, pp. 613-619.

Ryhl-Svendsen & Glastrup, 2000: "Direct measurements of acetic acid by SPME-GC/MS, and calculation of emission rates from emission chamber tests", IAQ 2000 - Third Indoor Air Quality Meeting, Postprints: Oxford Brookes University 10th-12th July 2000, (Internet) http://iaq.dk/iap/iaq2000/2000_14.htm

Ryhl-Svendsen, 1999: "Også kulturen kan få åndenød", DANVAK Aarskrift (Danish Society of Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Year Book), pp. 8-9 (in Danish), Internet version: http://iaq.dk/papers/danvak1999.htm

Ryhl-Svendsen, 1999: "Pollution in the photographic archive - a practical approach to the problem", IADA Congress 1999 Preprints, Eds. Koch & Palm, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, pp. 211-215. Pdf version: http://iaq.dk/papers/iada1999.pdf

Ryhl-Svendsen, 1998: "The pleasures and pains of emission chambers - the construction of an emission chamber unit at the National Museum of Denmark", Indoor Air Pollution: Detection and Prevention, Postprints: Instituut Collectie Nederland Amsterdam 26-27 August 1999, pp. 33-37. Internet version: http://iaq.dk/iap/iap1999/1999_10.htm

Contributions to Den Store Danske Encyklopaedi (The Great Danish Encyclopeadia) with articels on photographic techniques, since 1998.

Ryhl-Svendsen, 1997: "Brugen af dataloggere ved transport af kunst", Meddelelser om Konservering 2/1997, Nordisk Konservatorforbund (IIC Nordic Section), pp. 12-18 (in Danish)

Morten Ryhl-Svendsen © 2003