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🏛️ The Climate Science Behind Museum Conservation

How conservators use temperature and relative-humidity targets, rotation schedules, and preventive-care protocols to slow chemical decay in museum collections.

Chemistry & Materials3DAdvanced60 FPS

A cutaway museum display case where you set temperature, humidity and daily fluctuation, watch HVAC-driven airflow circulate around an artifact, and see its surface condition respond in real time.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each material — paper, wood, metal or textile — has its own ideal temperature/RH set-point and sensitivity. Deviating from that band, or letting conditions swing widely, raises a live damage-risk score and visibly stresses the object.

🎮 How to Use

Adjust temperature, humidity and fluctuation, pick a material, and toggle HVAC off to see conditions drift toward an uncontrolled room. Watch the wall monitor's psychrometric chart and the case's airflow particles change accordingly.

💡 Did You Know?

21°C and 50% RH became conventional museum targets partly because they sit in the middle of what most composite objects can tolerate — but many conservators now prefer stable conditions matched to an object's history over one rigid universal number.

⚙ Under the hood

How conservators use temperature and relative-humidity targets, rotation schedules, and preventive-care protocols to slow chemical decay in museum collections.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install