UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 30, 1994
Spencer art museum is a little dusty
Graduate student is writing a thesis on particles in air
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
The air filters at the Spencer Museum of Art can't keep all the dust off of the art.
Homa Roshanaei, Tehran, Iran, graduate student, is conducting a study of the air quality in the museum and found that dust does exist in the museum despite all the efforts to keep harmful dust particles off of the art.
For her master's thesis, Roshanaiel decided to conduct a study of air particles in the museum, an idea that she got from articles written about other museums' air pollution.
"Many museums are concerned with the quality of the air in their museum," she said. "I decided that
since we had the equipment and the instruments to complete such a survey, it would be a good project for my thesis."
Roshanaei hegan her study Oct. 18.
Roshanaei together study OC 18. For two weeks she collected samples with a desk-sized black box. The box contained a computer and the instruments used to collect samples during 24-hour periods, she said. The box acted as a vacuum, pulling in air and separating the particles. Roshanaei is now analyzing the data.
She said that the results were showing that air pollution was low and that the particles that did exist were from such things as skin particles from museum visitors and particles from cleaning solutions.
Roshanela said that her study only sampled particles in the air and did not collect other pollutants such as chemicals and gases.
Mark Roeyer, exhibit designer at the museum, said that he did not have any major concerns about the air particles in the museum damaging the art.
"I don't want to seem casual about it," he said. "But the particles are not a major environmental concern."
Because the museum was relatively new, it has taken precautions to prevent such damage to the art.
"Dust has never been a problem in the museum," he said. "Facilities operations change the air filters religiously."
Roeyer said that there was always a possibility that the air particles could have some kind of effect on the art, but the museum was going to great lengths to prevent any such damages.
He said that the main concern with environmental damages came from light and humidity.
"Art can be dusted off," Roeyer said.
He said that after Roshanaei's study was completed in May, she was going to give the museum a copy of her findings.
"I am interested in her analysis," Roeyer said. "No such study has ever been conducted."
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