Would you have thought about the importance of a heating strategy not only in museums, but also in historic interiors of temples, palaces and manors? If you plan to organize a wedding, concert or other commercial event in a historic interior and you care about preserving the wooden sculptures decorating it, we invite you to read the article published by us:
The risk to a historic object is determined not only by the type of material/materials it is made of. In the case of, for example, wooden objects, the size of the work is also important: a several dozen millimeter of panel painting support will reach the state of equilibrium with the environment (meaning mainly relative humidity) in a shorter time than a sculpture with a diameter of several centimeters. Larger dimensions prolong the so-called object’s response time to climate fluctuations, so that sculptures and other massive objects experiencing natural annual fluctuations associated with changing seasons are never in equilibrium.
How does this affect the condition of the object? The developed computational model helps to understand the processes taking place in massive wooden objects, especially due to dynamic climate fluctuations, characteristic of sporadically heated historical interiors.