Fire Extinguishers Agents: Which Impact on Cultural Heritage Materials?
Portable fire extinguishers play an important role in the protection of both cultural heritage properties and the collections housed in...
Historic Buildings Fire Protection
This category includes posts which deal with standards, rules, studies and researches about historic buildings and artefacts fire safety and protection.
The NFPA 909 on Museums, Libraries and Places of Worship
The NFPA 909 standard, published in 2021, provides guidelines for the protection of cultural resources during fire events. Some key...
Fire Threat to Cultural Heritage Stone Buildings
Fire has always been a threat to cultural historic valuable buildings and surroundings. The level of loss is unacceptable, yet...
Fire Safety Engineering and Cultural Heritage Buildings
Updated January 2026 Introduction One of the most powerful tools that fire protection professionals have at their disposal to reflect...
Firefighting Equipment and Techniques for Museums: A Comprehensive Guide for Heritage Managers
Updated January 2026 Introduction The 2006 report "Manual Fire Extinguishing Equipment for Protection of Heritage", prepared by COWI within the...
Climate Change and Museums: a Book About Indoor Risks
updated February 2026 Climate change is reshaping the design, operation, and risk profile of museum buildings worldwide. Among the extensive...
Vegetation Fires and Cultural Heritage: the Getty Museum Case
On December 5th, 2017, a large brush fire in California has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and...
USDA on the Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology
On May 2012 the United States the Department of Agricolture (USDA) has published the Technical Report: Wildland Fire in Ecosystems...
Fire Risks and New Threats from Climate Change to Libraries and Archives
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published in 2012 a document which is "an indicator-based assessment of past and projected...
The ABC Method to Approach Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Emergencies
Risks to cultural heritage vary from catastrophic events (such as earthquakes, floods, etc) to gradual processes (such as chemical, physical,...
Historic Underground Premises: how with Fire Safety of Visitors?
In the International Conference on Safety Issues of Rescue Operations in Underground Structures, held in Rome (Italy) on March 3rd,...
Sprinkler Corrosion and Fire Safety Issues in Historic Buildings
Ageing firefighting installations can cause severe reliability problems in historic buildings. An interesting article (Corrosion Process Inside Steel Fire Sprinkler...
NSW Guidelines on Fire Safety in Heritage Buildings
State of New South Wales (Australia) has published the Guidelines on fire safety in heritage buildings. In the introduction to...
The Arson Threat to Historical Buildings and Built Heritage
Arson has been in history and continues to pose a serious risk to historic and cultural buildings. In fact, the...
Flame retardant Textile Materials Vs Fire Hazards in Historic Buildings
One of the issues addressed during the Cost C17 Action "Fire Loss to Built Heritage" has been the role of...
Measuring the Impact of Fire Extinguisher Agents on Cultural Resource Materials – Final Report (2010)
One of the main problems posed by fire protection of cultural resources is the behavior of archaic and support materials...
Fire Loss to Historic Buildings – The Executive COST C17 Summary of Recommendations
Fire continues to be one of the greatest threats to our shared cultural heritage. The COST Action C17 Action (Built Heritage:...
How to Build an Emergency Plans for Museums: a Getty Guide
The Getty Conservation Institute has published on its website the "Building an Emergency Plan", which is the result of a...
Fire Effects on Archaic Materials and Archeology Sites
Image of a wall of the Roman Forum in Rome, also built to protect the Forum from fires of the...
Rome 2003 Conference “Integrating Historic Preservation with Security, Fire Protection, Life safety and Building Management Systems”
On April 10-11th 2003 the Conference "Integrating Historic Preservation with Security, Fire Protection, Life safety and Building Management Systems" has...
Water Mist for Protection of Heritage in the COST C17 Final Report
In the final Report of the Cost C17 Action (Fire Loss to built Heritage) different aspects of fire protection of Cultural...
Water Mist in Cultural Heritage Buildings: a White Paper
Cover of the 2004 COWI - RIKSANTIKVAREN - COST C17 publication "White Paper on Water Mist for Protection of Heritage"...
