Fun Facts - Issue 7 - Humidity in Museums

Poorly controlled relative humidity and temperature are two major causes of deterioration in museum artifacts.

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Do you know which is the most visited museum in the world?  If you answered 'The Louvre' in Paris you would be correct.  The Louvre had 9.7 million visitors in 2012.  However, we understand what you really want to know is how fluctuations in temperature or high/low levels of relative humidity affect valuable artifacts.  Read some more fun facts about museums in the 7th edition of Humidity Fun Facts.

Fun Fact - There are about 850 million visits to US museums each year, more than the attendance for all major league sporting events and theme parks combined.

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