Collections Stewardship

Protecting Artifacts While Enhancing the Museum Experience

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In developing the design for the renovation of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, architects, engineers, and curators tackled this dilemma. Creating the appropriate environmental conditions for the artifacts has presented a number of technical design challenges that many other museums share, particularly those housed in modern era buildings.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what technologies are available to control light levels in spaces designed to have abundant natural light
• Describe tools that can be used to model, analyze, and optimize humidity and daylighting levels.
• Understand the potential consequences to and control of humidification to the design of the building envelope

Moderator(s)

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  Leora Mirvish

  Principal
  Quinn Evans Architects

Presenter(s)

• MC

  Malcolm Collum

  Chief Conservator
  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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  Michael Henry

  Senior Design Manager
  Smithsonian Institution
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  Colin MacKillop

  Senior Associate
  Quinn Evans Architects
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  Gary Woodall

  Senior Designer
  Gary Steffy Lighting Design Inc.