CONTACT Dr. Pascal Querner, info@museumclimate.org
9.–11.
April 2025, Vienna
International Museum Conference on Climate Change
Welcome
Dear Colleagues,
on behalf of the Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee we would like to invite you to join us for an international conference on museum climate, climate change and future challenges related to insect pests, fungi, increasing energy costs and sustainable green museums. The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 9-11th of April, 2025.
The three-day meeting will take place in the center of Vienna and is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum Vienna, the Kunsthistorische Museum, the University of Applied Arts, the Akademie of Art and the Austrian Academy of Science.
This meeting will be an international forum to gather conservators, building facility managers, climate researchers, entomologist and microbiologist from around the globe, to share and discuss their experiences and scientific findings on indoor museum climate. The conference is focused on fine art, ethnological and natural history museums, but also including archives, libraries, historic buildings and palaces. We will present the newest predictions for future climate models, interesting case studies from large museums. The conference also marks the end of a four year research project in Austria, funded by the Austrian Academy of Science on “Modelling future climate change on museum pests and fungi”. We will present some exiting new results from this project and discuss it with the scientific community. There will be some exiting excursions on the last day of the program and some really special evening events…
In this conference we want to bring together conservators, facility managers, climate researchers, building physicists and (micro)-biologists to share results and discuss the future indoor climate in museums.
Dr. Pascal Querner, NHM (Chair)
Deadlines
Dates to remember
The exact location of the conference will be published here at a later stage.
IMC on Climate Change
Conference Program
Evening reception at the NHM Vienna
Theme 1
Effects of climate change on indoor museum climate
Theme 2
Modelling climate change, insect pests and fungi
Theme 3
Saving energy and the Green Museums
Theme 4
Evaluation of climate corridors
Keynote Speakers
- Prof. Stefan Simon
Rathgen Research Laboratory, Berlin, Germany - Dr. Johanna Leissner
Fraunhofer Institute, Brussels, Belgium - Prof. Peter Brimblecombe
University Taiwan - Prof. Katja Sterflinger
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria - Dr. Erik Breitung
Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA - Prof. Morten Ryhl-Svendsen
Kopenhagen, Denmark - Dr. Wolfgang Rabitsch
Umweltbundesamt - Dr. Joel Taylor
Norwegian institute for cultural research (NIKU), Oslo, Norway - Prof. Harald Rieder
University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria - Prof. Dario Camuffo
National Research Council of Italy (CNR) - Prof. Michał Łukomski
Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
Further Speakers
- Dr. Stefan Bichlmaier
Fraunhofer, Germany - Lars Klemm
Iconyk Munich, Germany - Bill Landsberger
Rathgen Research Laboratory, Berlin - Katharina Derksen
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria - Dr. Rudi Plarre
BAM, Berlin - Dr. Marie-Christine Pachler
Schönbrunn Palace Vienna, Austria - Dr. Tanja Kimmel
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria - Sonja Fuernkranz, Faranak Bahrololoumi
and Angelika Polster
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna - Dr. Anna Fenlon
Natural History Museum, London, UK - Tobias Haupt
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland - MBA Markus Querner
iC consulenten, Austria - Reiner Pospischil
PMP-Biosolutions, Germany
More speakers to be confirmed.
SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Presentation Guidelines
Keynote papers will be of 30 min duration of which 25 min are for oral presentation and 5 min for discussion. We already invited a number of speakers but if you have an interesting case study from your museum, research project or climate models, please contact Pascal Querner via email to see if your contribution will fit into the program. A scientific publication of all talks is an option and will be discussed by the scientific committee in the course of 2024.
Registration
Registration, Fees & Policy
REGISTRATION: today until February 2025
To register for the conference, please complete the form below. You will receive further information on payment processing by e-mail after your registration.
Conference Registration
Registration Fees
Early registration before 01/12/2024
Regular participants 1
450 €
Students 2
250 €
Accompanying persons 3
100 €
Dinner
50 €
Late registration after 01/12/2024
Regular participants 1
500 €
Students 2
300 €
Accompanying persons 3
100 €
Dinner
50 €
1 Registration fee Regular participants and Students includes:
- Delegate bag with meeting material including the abstracts book
- Attendance to all scientific sessions
- Coffee breaks and lunches during the meeting
- Welcome reception (day one)
- Attending excursions
2 Students with identification card or declaration of institution as proof
3 Accompanying person registration fee includes:
- Welcome reception (day one)
- Attending the congress dinner (day two)
Refunding Policy
- Cancellations received before 1. of October 2024:
100 % of the registration cost - Cancellations received before 31. Dezember 2024:
50 % of the registration cost - For cancellations after the 1. January 2025 on:
no refunds
Please note that refunds will only be processed after the conference!
Travelling to Vienna
Vienna is the capital of Austria and can be reached overnight by train from most capitals in Europe. We emphasize all participants to travel as envirnomental friendly as possible to reduce CO2 emissions. The train station is in the city centre only few subway stops from the conference. If you are travelling by plane to Austria, you will arrive to Vienna International Airport, about 30 min by train (S-Bahn) or bus from the city centre.
Accomodation
Please book your accomodation as soon as possible as Vienna is visited by many tourists in the spring. For a complete list of hotels please look at Wien Info.
Social Events
Welcome reception at the Natural History Museum in Vienna before the conference
Conference dinner in a traditional Viennese restaurant
Further details will be published here at a later stage.
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
SAVE THE DATE: International Museum Conference on Climate Change, April 9–11, 2025, Vienna·
Sponsors & Partners
We thank our sponsors and partners that are supporting this conference!
