Establish an Environmental Monitoring Plan
To monitor, assess, and make necessary changes to environmental controls at the museum.
$4,500,000 the first year and $6,500,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Funds are to be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer these funds using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
Available upon request. grants@mnhs.org
The short term outcomes of the project have been achieved as part of the project itself. BCHS installed data loggers in collections and exhibit spaces and created and implemented an environmental monitoring plan. Several changes to the BCHS building environments have already been made as a result of the project's milestone requirement, including alteration of temperature and humidity set points. BCHS is also planning to block windows in its collection spaces in 2020 to help stabilize daily temperature fluctuations and reduce light damage as part of the intermediate outcomes of the project. The outcomes were achieved during the project mainly as a result of installing the data loggers. Since previous BCHS staff were not regularly tracking environmental conditions, any alterations to the environment would have been based on limited data, instead of the constant and reliable data gathered by the data loggers.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org