Winterthur Sustainable Preservation Environment Project
FAIN: PF-50265-12
Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, DE 19735-1819)
Lois Olcott Price (Project Director: December 2011 to December 2015)
An implementation project to improve the management of environmental conditions for the protection of the museum's collections, which include nearly 90,000 fine and decorative arts objects made or used in America between 1640 and 1860. A new climate control and integrated monitoring system would be installed in the museum, galleries, and research library, improving the collection environments in more energy-efficient ways.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is committed to lifelong learning in the humanities and to the sustainable preservation of the collections that support this mission. To this end, Winterthur requests a $350,000 NEH SCHC implementation grant as part of an $873,338 project to enhance the preservation of the collections and reduce collection-related energy costs. Installation of a new HVAC control system will effectively manage energy and the preservation environment in Winterthur’s three major collection buildings–the Museum, Galleries, and Research Building. These buildings house one of America’s outstanding collections of decorative arts and research material related to material culture as well as extensive programming, exhibitions, conservation and scientific research facilities, and two graduate programs critical to training cultural heritage professionals.
Media Coverage
Winterthur Museum Press Release (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Liz Farrell
Publication: Winterthur Museum website
Date: 12/31/2012
Abstract: Official Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library announcement acknowledging award of NEH grant
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/pdfs/nehgrant.pdf
Winterthur Incubator (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Betsy Price
Publication: The News Journal
Date: 8/30/2012
Abstract: A $350,000 federal grant will help Winterthur Museum and Library create a cutting-edge monitoring system expected to slash $200,000 or more a year in heating and cooling costs.
WINTERTHUR RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS CORPORATE ENERGY MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARD (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Liz Farrell
Publication: Winterthur Museum website
Date: 3/9/2015
Abstract: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library’s recent conservation program—which cut energy use 20 percent—has led to it receiving the prestigious Corporate Energy Manager of the Year Award from the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers.
The Winterthur Project and Future Directions for Sustainable Environmental Management (Media Coverage)
Publication: Climate Notes (newsletter published by Image Permanence Institute--IPI)
Date: 1/1/2015
Abstract: The NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Grant program provided funding to the Winterthur Museum in Delaware in 2012 for a Sustaining Collections Project.
URL: https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/resources/newsletter-archive/v22/winterthur-project
Wintherthur Museum, Garden and Library Sustains Collections while Saving Energy (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lois Olcott Price, John Castle
Publication: Retrofit
Date: 5/14/2015
URL: http://retrofitmagazine.com/wintherthur-museum-garden-and-library-sustains-collections-while-saving-energy/
Putting Theory into Practice: Sustaining Collections and Saving Energy at Winterthur Museum (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lois Olcott Price, John Castle
Publication: Papyrus (16:2, Summer-Fall 2015, 50-52)
Date: 9/1/2015