Protection of paintings against environmental effects

The common Galerion project of Seacon Europe and the Köfém Education and Community Center is nearing its end.
During the implementation, the partners created a monitoring solution tailored to the institution for the continuous measurement and control of temperature, relative humidity and light conditions. Sensor based measurements were used to classify the interior environment and establish risk factors for the paintings. In this way, they were able to evaluate the exhibition spaces from the point of view of the artefacts.

We can already say that the project was useful, as we were able to better map the conditions typical of the building. We selected four rooms with different characteristics, in which, in addition to the measurements, we collected a lot of information about the way of use.
As a result our colleagues became even more aware of how necessary and important small attentions are even in everyday life: lighting should only be used in justified cases and to an extent, and the temperature should not be kept higher than really necessary during the heating season. With these, we can greatly contribute to the preservation of paintings.

The Galerion project was implemented in the framework program of the international cluster CREATHRIV-EU, co-funded by the European Union’s Single Market Program.