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Indoor Environment & Soiling Defects from Airborne Particulates towards Artefacts, Tourists, Visitors and Staff at the National Museum Kuala Lumpur

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Museums are essential facilities as they represent the history and culture of every nation, this research aims to evaluate the indoor air environment conditions in the Malaysian national museum, providing the temperature, relative humidity, and air pollutants evaluation readings, the method of conducting the research was done by 6 HOBO data loggers were used to provide the readings of the indoor air environment, that the average temperature and relative humidity, within the standard limits ranging between 23.5 0 C to 25.1 0 C and 52.5% to 64.9% except for HOBO 5 giving reading of 11.7 0 C and the lowest RH reading of 34%.The results provide an insight of the current conditions in the museum and it is effect on the artefacts, visitors, tourist and staffs, and give the management indicators on the issues that can be improved through recommendations on the scheduled museum maintenance specifically air conditioning and HVAC, and also Acute monitoring and control of temperature, relative humidity and indoor air quality (IAQ) of their in the future.

Source: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research

DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-138-8_26