INTEGRATED RISK PREPAREDNESS: A PLANNED CONSERVATION BLUEPRINT TO MITIGATE PEST, SEISMIC, AND FIRE HAZARDS IN MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES

The preservation of museums and archives’ physical history faces several dangers, as heritage collections are severely impacted by climate change, accelerating material deterioration, value loss, and conservation expenses. Climate change scenarios and simulation models have been developed to predict extreme and average future environmental conditions and assess the long-term risks of global warming for archives and museum buildings and their collections. The present investigation presents the risk analysis approach for indoor environments to provide an overview of conservation and management and evidence-based data backed by implementing a pilot project to support preventive conservation decision-making and develop a preventative strategy for safeguarding cultural assets from fungal attacks. Organic exhibits are susceptible to cellulolytic and lipolytic bacteria as people spread microorganisms or via doors and windows. Biological particulate matter may proliferate and become biodeteriogenic under favorable microclimatic and nutritional circumstances, such as temperature, relative humidity, and inadequate ventilation. The paper shows how a monitoring system can collect a lot of data from several sensors installed on the subject under investigation, process it, extract information, and gain valuable knowledge to understand the current state of its components, identify damage phenomena in time, and intervene effectively in accordance with the cardinal principle of minimum intervention. Based on predictive damage evolution from biological contamination, the methodology incorporates bioaerosol monitoring technologies and identifies potential biohazard conditions.