International Symposium on the future of Museum
Climate
seen in the context of Global Climate Change and
Energy Priority
National Gallery of Denmark, Sølvgade 48-50, Copenhagen
Program
Monday
March 1st 2010
9:15 Welcome by Dr. Jørgen Wadum, Keeper
of Conservation
9:30 Session one: Museum climate – a
choice
The
Minister for Climate and Energy, opening speech
Stefan Michalski, Senior Conservation Scientist at CCI-ICC, Canada
Decision models for the protection of
collections.
Sarah Staniforth, Historic Properties Director
National Trust, UK
Climate changes and museum practices
10:30 Discussion/summing up, Dr.
David
Saunders, British Museum, UK
11:00
Coffee/tea
11:30 Session two: Air
quality
Michael K. Hansen, Head of Security and Maintenance, SMK
Going green –challenges and
possibilities
Dr. Morten Ryhl Svendsen,
Nationalmuseet, Denmark
Energy consumption vs. quality of indoor
climate
12:10 Discussion/summing up, Dr. Tor
Broström, Gotland University, Sweden
12:30 Lunch at
SMK
14:00 Session three: NI-regulations
and EU standards
Dr.
Susanna Pettersson, Director of Development, Finnish National
Gallery
EU-ambitions for Collections
Mobility
Dr. David Saunders,
Keeper of Conservation British
Museum, UK
Challenges and possibilities
14:40 Discussion/summing up, Rasmus
Vestergaard, director SNYK and of the Danish Museum Organisation (ODM)
14:50
Coffee/tea
15:15 Session four: The museum as part
of the green movement
Dr. May Cassar, UCL
London, UK
From a Low Carbon Past to a Low Carbon Future: What can
Building Retrofit Policy learn from Museums
Martin Fluri, Director EPEA Kopenhagen,
Denmaark
Going beyond green - Cradle to Cradle, a strategy for quality
and total beauty
15:50 Final panel discussion, by
Dr. Tim Padfield, Freelance consultant in
preventive conservation, UK
16:30 Reception and visit to the special
SMK exhibition Nature Strikes
Back
and
RETHINK Relations, the National Gallery of Denmark contribution
to the multi-venue exhibition RETHINK Contemporary Art & Climate Change.
The seminar is organised by the National Gallery of Denmark in
collaboration with The Association of Danish Museums (ODM)
Reservations for eventual last
minute changes -
on-line booking facilities will be available from January
2010 at http://www.dkmuseer.dk/