AIC's 52nd Annual Meeting

As a result of climate change and land management practices, the United States has seen an increase in the number of severe wildfires, negatively impacting air quality. Cultural heritage spaces have long been invested in preserving their collections, but the increase in hazardous air quality events has prompted additional need for monitoring to protect collections as well as human health. In an effort to assess climate risks to a historic house museum collection, a sampling path and schedule with NOx, total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) and PM1 (particulate matter), PM2.5, and ozone measurements was implemented. Deployment of this instrumentation throughout the collection has helped assess climate control strategies and implement air quality benchmarks for access to these spaces.