Theme 1: Effects of climate change on indoor museum climate
Theme 2: Modelling climate change, insect pests and fungi
Theme 3: Saving energy and the Green Museums
Theme 4: Evaluation of climate corridors
 

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee we would like to invite you to join us for an international conference on museum climate, climate change and future challenges related to insect pests, fungi, increasing energy costs and sustainable green museums. The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 8-10th of April, 2025.

The three-day meeting will take place in the center of Vienna and is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum Vienna, the Kunsthistorische Museum, the University of Applied Arts, the Akademie of Art and the Austrian Academy of Science.

This meeting will be an international forum to gather conservators, building facility managers, climate researchers, entomologist and microbiologist from around the globe, to share and discuss their experiences and scientific findings on indoor museum climate. The conference is focused on fine art, ethnological and natural history museums, but also including archives, libraries, historic buildings and palaces. We will present the newest predictions for future climate models, interesting case studies from large museums. The conference also marks the end of a four year research project in Austria, funded by the Austrian Academy of Science on “Modelling future climate change on museum pests and fungi”. We will present some exiting new results from this project and discuss it with the scientific community. There will be some exiting excursions on the last day of the program and some really special evening events…

Pascal Querner (Chair)

Dr. Pascal Querner NHM

Weitere Informationen:

https://www.museumclimate.org/

Deadlines

•    Date of the conference: 8-10th of April, 2025
•    Evening reception in the NHM Vienna: 7th of April 2025
•    Late registration: until 1st of February 2025 (cut-off date).
•    The exact location of the conference will be published here at a later stage here.

Conference program

Day 1:
Theme 1: Effects of outdoor climate change on indoor museum climate
Theme 2: Modelling climate change and insect pests and fungi

Day 2:
Theme 3: Green Museum and saving energy in museums

Day 3:
Theme 4: New climate corridors
Excursions

Keynote Speakers:
 

Prof. Stephan Simon, Rathgen Research Laboratory, Berlin
Dr. Johanna Leisner, Fraunhofer, Brüssel
Prof. Peter Brimblecombe,
Prof. Katja Sterflinger, Akademie of Arts; Vienna
Dr. Stefan Bichlmaier, Fraunhofer,
Dr. Erik Breitung, Metropolotan Museum, New York
Bill Landsberger, Rathgen Research Laboratory, Berlin
Dr. Rudi Plarre, BAM, Berlin
Prok Fraz Essl, University of Vienna (to be confirmed)
Prof BOKU
Alexandra Jeberien
Joel Taylor
Armando Mendez, Natural History Museum, London
Sonja Fuernkranz, Faranak Bahrololoumi and Angelika Polster, Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna
Dr. Pascal Querner, Natural History Museum, Vienna

Registration, Fees & Policy

REGISTRATION:
until February 2025
First create an ACCOUNT with your name and affiliation.
As a second step you must be LOGIN (right side of the screen) in order to access the REGISTRATION.
Please keep in mind that this registration as member IS NOT jet the registration in the meeting.

REGISTRATION FEES
 
Early registration                      Late registration
Before 01/10/2024                  After 1/10/2024

     
Regular participants    550 €            650 €
Students  300 €                               350 €
Acompayning persons3    100 €      100 €
Dinner    50 €                                    50 €
 

Registration fee Regular participants and Students includes:

    Delegate bag with meeting material including the abstracts book
    Attendance to all scientific sessions
    Coffee breaks and lunches during the meeting
    Welcome reception (day one)
    Attending excursions

Students with identification card or declaration of institution as proof
Accompanying person registration fee includes:

    Welcome reception (day one)
    Attending the congress dinner (day two)

 
REFUNDING POLICY

•    Cancellations received before 1. of October 2024 - 100 % of the registration cost
•    Cancellations received before 31. Dezember 2024 - 50 % of the registration cost
•    For cancellations after the 1. January 2025 on - no refunds
•    Please note that refunds will only be processed after the conference.
 

TRAVELLING TO Vienna

Vienna is the capital of Austria and can be reached overnight by train from most capitals in Europe. We emphasize all participants to travel as envirnomental friendly as possible to reduce CO2 emissions. The train station is in the city centre only few subway stops from the conference. If you are travelling by plane to Austria, you will arrive to Vienna International Airport, about 30 min by train (S-Bahn) or bus from the city centre.

By train
See timetable and prices at www.oebb.at

ACCOMMODATION
 
For a complete list of hotels please look at www.Wien.at. Please book as soon as possible as Vienna is visited by many tourists in the spring.
 

Social events

Welcome reception at the Natural History Museum in Vienna before the conference.
Conference dinner in a traditional Viennese restaurant.
Further details will be published here at a later stage.

Sponsors

We thank our sponsors and partners that are supporting this conference!

ICOM Österreich
NHM
KHM
BDA
ICOM
Angewandte
Akademie
Akademie der Wissenschaft
LLA
TESTO
Hasenkamp
HsArt
Kunsttrans
Camfil
Klimafirma
Singer