Mona Lisa in the Louvre

Museum and Archive Environmental Monitoring

Preserve the artifacts with precise humidity and temperature measurements

Wasa ship

Precise humidity control preserves valuable objects

Museums, archives, libraries, and art storage facilities contain valuable objects that are necessarily exposed to environmental conditions, whether in a gallery, an exhibit case, or a storage environment. The impact of relative humidity in the environment is roughly one order of magnitude greater than the impact of temperature. Even if relative humidity control is not available from an HVAC system, it can still be useful to have a long term record of environmental conditions. 

Learn how Vaisala helps to create the right climate for the 17th century royal Swedish warship located in Scandinavia's most visited museum, the Vasa Museum.

Restoration of a painting

Temperature and humidity monitoring of archives

Vaisala HUMICAP® relative humidity sensors have a low drift rate, making them ideal for long term measurements. Careful factory calibration of Vaisala RH measuring devices provides high measurement accuracy. This combination of attributes delivers reliable functionality and a high level of data integrity. Read how a Japanese painting restorer uses Vaisala's handheld humidity and temperature meter.

Wireless environmental monitoring for museums

The Vaisala Jade Smart Cloud is independent of the HVAC system. It is a complete solution for measuring, monitoring, and documenting environmental conditions. Measurement devices can be fully wireless, making it easy to move them around when exhibits change, or when sensors are installed in free-standing exhibit cases. 

Even when humidity control is provided by an HVAC system, Jade Smart Cloud is a valuable tool for monitoring conditions at precise locations. For example, close to the objects of interest, or as a tool to map conditions in a large space. Jade Smart Cloud is well proven even in the most challenging environments.

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Jade logger with HMP115 on art museum wall

Join our webinar: A smarter way to safeguard collections

From paintings to ancient manuscripts and artifacts, monitoring your collections should never be complicated. Whether you're on-site or working remotely, you deserve full visibility and confidence in both your data and the system behind it. 

Cloud-based monitoring solutions offer advanced capabilities, ease of use, and flexibility, helping museums preserve cultural heritage.

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Creating the right climate

The Vasa is housed in her own specially constructed museum, but despite the continued preservation, the ship is extremely fragile. Therefore, there has always been paid special attention to create a suitable climate, a sort of an air curtain to protect the Vasa ship from surrounding stressful conditions that may cause further damage.

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In support of great works of art

For paintings to last through posterity, one must pay careful attention to not only the restoration of the works of art, but to the environment in which they are preserved. 

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Vaisala Humidity Calculator makes your complex humidity calculations and conversions easy. It covers all popular parameters and is effortless to use. Calculate several humidity parameters based on only one known value and tolerance.

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No need to check monitoring points manually...

Project Manager Mats Andersson was responsible for the selection and installation project of the system for AstraZeneca: “We made a careful evaluation of various systems. Vaisala was one of the candidates, as we had a long experience with their monitoring instruments.

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