Announcing Collection Care Conference

The conference CollectionCare: New Challenges in Preventive Conservation, Predictive Analysis and Environmental Monitoring will be held in December 2021 in the framework of the EU’s Horizon2020 CollectionCare project.

The conference aims to be a forum to exchange highly specialized research and the latest technological advances in the study of the behavior and aging of cultural heritage materials, environmental monitoring, and the design of preventive conservation strategies in collections.

During the conference keynote speakers from internationally acclaimed institutions and prestigious museum collections will share knowledge, experiences and know-how. 

The main areas of focus of the conference will be the collection’s needs and challenges during display, storage and transport,predictive analysis of cultural objects and preventive conservation,connectivity, sensing, and cloud computing technologies,Internet of things (IoT) and big data analytics applied to preventive conservation, wireless technologies for cultural heritage site monitoring and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies applied to cultural heritage. 

View the conference programme here

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 814624