Cultural Heritage Protection against Fire: the main Issues
In the annals of history, fires have left an indelible mark, narrating tales of unintentional and deliberate blazes that have...
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Air conditioning units destroyed nearly 20 million historic items in Brazil
Fire at the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, on 2 September 2018 - Felipe Milanez, CC BY-SA...
Fire Threat to Cultural Heritage Stone Buildings
Many historic buildings are made with stone structures. In addition to the various benefits that this type of material, which...
Vegetation Fire and Cultural Heritage buildings: the Paul Getty Museum case study
Flames endangers the I 405 by the Getty Center on Dec. 5th (Credits: Melissa Castro) On December 5th, 2017, a...
Cultural Heritage and Forest Fires
picture taken from Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Kovanc Köse, Nikos Grammalidis, and Enis Cetin paper Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is the...
Termites, Worms, Xylophagous and Fire Protections in Museums
In some cases, fire protection systems can be useful also to improve the environment of museums and galleries, like the...
Audioguide System for Rescue Operations in Museums
An innovative system developed under EU funds to help rescuers during emergencies in museums has been presented on September 15th,...
Risk of closure for Museum due to Lack of Fire Protection
Maryport Maritime Museum is likely to close following the discovery of a fire risk. Allerdale council’s building control team says the...
Water leak from hydrant in historic library
On December 23rd, 2009, in the historic library of "Accademia delle Scienze", inside the Egyptian museum in Turin (Italy), the...
Malfunctioning Sprinkler in Archive
A malfunctioning sprinkler head reduced some historical documents kept in Columbia (USA) by the Missouri State Historical Society to waterlogged...
Are Wireless Sensors Suitable to Heritage Buildings?
Wireless sensors can be used with fair advantages in historical buildings. They do not need the works that normally have...
Is restoration the biggest treat for the built heritage?
The fire of La Fenice theater in Venezia, the Guerini chapel in Torino as many other terrible damage to the...
Water mist for Protection of Heritage – Cost C17 Final report
In the final Report of the Cost c17 Action different aspects of fire protection of Cultural Heritage buildings have been addressed,...
