Abstract
Introduction
The purposes of this study, as part of research projects for establishing the preservation environment of domestic cultural properties, are to identify the hazardous environmental factors which have a possibility to cause damages on long-term preservation of cultural heritage within the museum exhibition halls and the storages area, and to provide the basic data for the future establishment of preservation environment.
Materials and methods
The temperature (23.5 and 20.6°C,) relative humidity (52.1% and 55.4%), PM10 (31.5 and 18.9 μg/m3), CO2 (472.7 and 526.8 ppm), HCHO (20.8 and 34.0 μg/m3), CO (0.3 and 0.3 ppm), NO2 (0.012 and 0.004 ppm), TVOCs (493.6 and 788.9 μg/m3), O3 (0.003 and 0.002 ppm), Rn (0.7 and 1.5 pCi/L), and SO2 (0.003 and 0.002 ppm) as chemical factors, and airborne bacteria and fungi as biological factors, were selected for this research subjects of hazardous environmental factors, which were the subjects of the study conducted by the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage from 2006 to 2008, and the subjects of related domestic researches performed in fragments.
Results and discussion
The concentration distributions of selected hazardous environmental factors in a museum environment were calculated by using the inverse variance weighted average in meta-analysis, and the concentration distributions possibly emerging in a museum exhibition halls and storages were computed through Monte Carlo simulation in order to minimize the uncertainty that can be caused from meagerness of related domestic researches.
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This study, which forms a part of the project, has been achieved with the support of Conservation Restoration Technology Research and Development project, which has been hosted by National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage Administration.
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Lee, C., Kim, Y., Nagajyothi, P.C. et al. Cultural heritage: a potential pollution source in museum. Environ Sci Pollut Res 18, 743–755 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-010-0411-2
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