14:00 - 14:30 // Welcome
Olivier Schalm

14:30 - 15:00 // Trace Gas Measurements Inside a University Art Museum: Sources and Fate of Volatile Organic Compounds
Joost De Gouw

15:00 - 15:15 // Break - Publish your questions

15:15 - 15:30 // Question & Answers

15:30 - 15:45 // Detection of VOCs in Smithsonian collections by Mass Spectrometry
Alba Alvarez-Martin

15:45 - 16:00 // APACHE project and management of museum microenvironments
Ida Kraševec

16:00 – 16:15 // When mould is a museum visitor
Camilla Jul Bastholm

16:15 - 16:30 // Break - Publish your questions

16:30 - 16:45 // Question & Answers

16:45 – 17:00 // Air Quality in a historic submarine
Imme Hüttmann

17:00 - 17:15 // Multi scale modelling and monitoring for preventive conservation of museums objects - The EU-Horizon 2020 project SensMat
Juergen Frick

17:15 - 17:30 // Break - Publish your questions

17:30 - 17:45 // Question & Answers

17:45 – 18:00 // Closing words
Olivier Schalm

13:45 - 14:00 // Welcome
Olivier Schalm

14:00 - 14:15 // Indoor air quality monitoring using LoRa wireless sensor network: National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba - a case study
Lorenzo Hernandez-Tabares

14:15 - 14:30 // Prototyping a LoRaWan Datalogger for ModeMuseum Antwerpen with Open Hardware and Software
Dieter Suls

14:30 - 14:45 // Break - Publish your questions

14:45 - 15:00 // Question & Answers

15:00 - 15:15 // iAir - smart sensor array for indoor pollution monitoring: Model project for the development and application of an innovative multiparametric sensor solution for cost-effective and area-wide monitoring of pollutants
Axel Solbach

15:15 - 15:30 // Application of thermoanalytical techniques to case studies in preventive conservation and novel conservation treatments
Marianne Odlyha

15:30 - 15:45 // Break - Publish your questions

15:45 - 16:00 // Question & Answers

16:00 - 16:15 // The BEMMA-Scheme helpful for low VOC inside display cases?
Wolfgang Horn

16:15 - 16:30 // eOddy - Application of an innovative multiparametric sensor for cost-effective detection of corrosive emissions from display materials
Elise Spiegel

16:30 - 16:45 // Break - Publish your questions

16:45 - 17:00 // Question & Answers

17:00 - 17:15 // Oddy Testing and SPME GC-MS of Double-sided Pressure Sensitive Acrylic Adhesives and Compounds Used to Manufacture Acrylic Adhesives
Catherine Stephens

17:15 - 17:30 // Accelerated Corrosion Testing for Museums and Collections - Innovations and Standards in Pollution Control
Alexandra Jeberien

17:30 - 17:45 // Break - Publish your questions

17:45 – 18:00 // Questions & Answers

18:00 - 18:15 // Closing words
Olivier Schalm

13:45 - 14:00 // Welcome
Olivier Schalm

14:00 - 14:15 // What's in the news? The micro-environment inside stacked paper
Morten Ryhl-Svendsen

14:15 - 14:30 // The impact of air motion on indoor microenvironments: passive ventilation strategies for historic bookshelves
Morena Ferreira

14:30 - 14:45 // Break - Publish your questions

14:45 - 15:00 // Question & Answers

15:00 - 15:15 // Modeling the degradation of acidic, neutral and alkaline papers
Jean Tétreault

15:15 - 15:30 // Material research on the lead alloyed printing types and environmental mitigation actions in the Plantin-Moretus museum, Antwerp
Patrick Storme and Werner van Hoof

15:30 - 15:45 // Break - Publish your questions

15:45 - 16:00 // Question & Answers

16:00 - 16:15 // Crizzling in Spanish Royal glasses, how to preserve them in historical buildings?
Teresa Palomar

16:15 - 16:30 // Suicide Squad – Managing Emissions from Mixed Media Objects and Displays
David Thickett​

16:30 - 16:45 // Break - Publish your questions

16:45 - 17:00 // Question & Answers

17:00 - 17:10 // Jennifer Sainato - Poster session

17:10 - 17:20 // Eva Menart - Poster session

17:20 - 17:30 // Laura Pagnin - Poster session

17:30 - 17:40 // Sabine Stanek - Poster session

17:40 - 18:00 // Closing words
Olivier Schalm

13:45 - 14:00 // Welcome
Olivier Schalm

14:00 - 14:10 // James Crawford - Poster session

14:10 - 14:20 // Karen Barbosa - Poster session

14:20 - 14:30 // Ludmila Mašková - Poster session

14:30 - 14:40 // Anny Falcão - Poster session

14:40 - 14:50 // Kelli Stoneburner - Poster session

14:50 - 15:00 // Break

15:00- 15:15 //  Investigation of Fogging on Glass Display Cases at the Royal Ontario Museum
Helen Coxon​

15:15 – 15:30 // Crystalline deposits in new display cases of the Rijksmuseum 
Jolanda van Iperen​

15:30 - 15:45 // Break - Publish your questions

15:45 - 16:00 // Questions & Answers

16:00 - 16:15 // Functionalized silica adsorbents for pollution reduction in cultural heritage environments
Elyse Canosa

16:15 - 16:30 // Climate Improvement for Paintings and Visitors in Affandi Museum, Indonesia
Wolfgang Stumpf

16:30 - 16:45 // Break - Publish your questions

16:45 - 17:00 // Question & Answers

17:00 - 17:15 // Are our management actions good enough to preserve collections?
Nuno Garcia Saraiva

17:15 - 17:30 // How to involve Citizen Scientists in monitoring pollutants and indoor air quality
Josep Grau-Bove

17:30 - 17:45 // Break - Publish your questions

17:45 - 18:00 // Question & Answers

18:00 - 18:15 // Closing words

On top of the traditional IAQ conference, we propose an extra inspirational day for researchers who want to explore new research paths about indoor air quality. The organizing committee has invited several local experts specialized in a variety of topics: human health, visual communication, design thinking to develop mitigation actions and the impact of architectural properties of buildings on mitigation actions. These topics are somehow related to your work and will hopefully inspire you for future projects. The sessions are meant to generate a response of the public. Each session is followed by a group discussion. We intend to challenge you, to inspire you and hopefully to see you back in 2022 with new work.

13:45 - 14:00 // Purpose of this day
Olivier Schalm

14:00 - 14:20 // Indoor air quality for heritage objects and human health: just a different interpretation of the same measurements?
Gustavo Carro

14:20 - 15:00 // Discussion

15:00 - 15:20 // How to tackle complex problems such as improving the experience and preservation conditions in museum rooms using design thinking?
Kristof Vaes

15:20 - 16:00 // Discussion

16:00 - 16:20 // Visual communication of complex science: from data cloud to graphic novel
Geert Potters

16:20 - 17:00 // Discussion

17:00 - 17:20 // Alternative designs for the energy and climate needs of heritage objects and humans
Johan Van Rompaey

17:20 - 18:00 // Discussion

18:00 - 18:15 // Closing words

1 // Measurement of Indoor air quality for cultural institutions with moderate resources
Jennifer Sainato

2 // Monitoring the environment surrounding Hasan's cloak: a case study
Eva Menart

3 // How environmental pollution affects modern paints: The influence of UV-light, sulfur dioxide and RH
Laura Pagnin

4 // Experiences with indoor generated air pollutants in the Weltmuseum Wien: The reinstallation of the collection as a chance to improve preventive measures?
Sabine Stanek

5 // Using oak (Quercus Sp.) as a natural, complex source of volatile organic compounds to study corrosion of lead metal in multi-year laboratory experiments
James Crawford

6 // Berardo Museum: a preliminary investigation of VOCs inside display case with contemporary painting
Karen Barbosa

7 // Pneumatic cleaning of books and manuscripts
Ludmila Mašková

8 // The National Museum of Brazil and the absence of national safety regulations for museums and its cultural goods: the tragedy
Anny Falcão

9 // Semi-quantitative GCMS-based thermal desorption to examine and limit the risk of volatile organic compounds to collections
Kelli Stoneburner

Participation professional: 100 euro

Participation student: 50 euro

Everyone who wishes to submit an oral and/or poster contribution, should consider the following important dates. Each attending author can submit several contributions but only one as an oral presentation.

June 2019: Call for papers
6 January 2020: Abstract submission deadline
10 January 2020: Notification to authors
26 June 2020: Program online
10 September 2020: Deadline registrations

Author notification

The organizers wish to thank all the authors for the abstracts they submitted. We received 43 abstracts and are delighted with both the number and quality received. Things are shaping up for a very good conference. All contributors have received an email confirmation whether the abstract has been accepted as an oral presentation of 15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion or as a poster presentation with a pitch talk of 4 minutes. If you did not receive that email, please inform us.

If an abstract is accepted, the contributor(s) must register and pay the registration fee. Only contributions from registered participants will be published in the abstract book.

Scientific committee

• Dario Camuffo, National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Padua, Italy 
• Lorraine Gibson, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 
• Martina Griesser, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 
• Morten Ryhl Svendsen, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Alexandra Schieweck, Fraunhofer Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute WK, Braunschweig, Germany 
• Jiří Smolík, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic 
• Matija Strlic, UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, London, UK 
• Jean Tétreault, Canadian Conservation Institute CCI, Ottawa, Canada 
• David Thickett, English Heritage, London, UK 
• Tomasz Sawoszczuk, Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland

Organizing committee

• Olivier Schalm, University of Antwerp, Antwerp Maritime Academy
• Natalie Ortega, University of Antwerp
• Kristel De Vis, University of Antwerp
• Geert Van der Snickt, University of Antwerp
• Willemien Anaf, University of Antwerp
• Elke Lingier, University of Antwerp