Advanced Approaches in Air Quality Monitoring and Modeling for Cultural Heritage and Works of Art

Dear Colleagues,

Cultural heritage represents a weal for the whole of humanity. At present, many efforts have been made with the aim of restoring or preserving them from all factors that can cause them damage.

Environmental parameters such as humidity, temperature, illumination, and chemical substances—singly or in combination—play a crucial role in the degradation processes.

In particular, the correlation between cultural heritage conservation and air quality is a well-known aspect to consider when “preventive conservation” is under discussion: that idea concerns the evaluation of all factors that can determine damaging effects, in a museum or in storage, before the placement of exhibits and works of art.

For that reason, it is important to improve analytical methods and instruments for air quality studies and to adapt them to museum environments (i.e., reducing their volumes or their noise production), perform monitoring and air quality modeling campaigns with advanced or traditional methods, or assess the state of air quality inside and outside of museums (with the aim of creating reference databases and to verify standards law application) and, finally, to study works of art to obtain information on their storage conditions or exhibition.

This Special Issue is focused on monitoring and modeling environmental parameters (particularly air composition) in museum environments. Attention will be paid to papers discussing data or suggesting innovative methodologies and experimental approaches that will be useful for preventive conservation. Additionally, papers presenting works of art analyses aiming at providing information on the status of air quality will be considered.

Particularly, interdisciplinary works and multi-country collaborative research will be considered for publication.

Prof. Dr. RICCIO Angelo
Dr. CHIANESE Elena
Guest Editors

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