https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2011.185

Ten years of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wien

Vol. 43 No. 2 (2011)
Submitted: 4 February 2012
Accepted: 4 February 2012
Published: 20 August 2011
cultural heritage, insect pests, IPM concept, monitoring.
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Pascal Querner
pascal.querner@boku.ac.at
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Department of Integrated Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Zoology, Austria.
Michaela Morelli
Kunsthistorisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM Museum of Carriages and Department of Court Uniforms, Textile conservation Schloss Schönbrunn, Austria.
Elke Oberthaler
Kunsthistrisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM , Picture Gallery, Austria.
Monica Strolz
Kunsthistrisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM , Picture Gallery, Austria.
Katja Schmitz Von Ledebur
Kunsthistrisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM , Picture Gallery, Austria.
Johanna Diehl
Kunsthistrisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM , Picture Gallery, Austria.
Isabell Zatschek
Austrian Theatre Museum, Austria.
Anna Fermi-Mebarek
Austrian Theatre Museum, Austria.
Regina Hölzl
Kunsthistorisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM, Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, Austria.
Irene Engelhardt
Kunsthistorisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM, Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, Austria.
Hugo Krammer
Kunsthistorisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM, The Museum of Ethnology, Austria.
Sophie Fürnkranz
Kunsthistorisches Museum mit MVK und ÖTM, The Museum of Ethnology, Austria.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien is one of the largest fine arts collections worldwide, comprising the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Austrian Theater Museum, the Museum of Ethnology, all placed in Vienna, and Schloß Ambras in Tirol. We present results from up to 10 years of insect pest monitoring in different collections and the implementation of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) concept. The Kunsthistorisches Museum was the first museum in Vienna to introduce such a concept. We also present specific insect pest problems such as a biscuit beetle (Stegobium paniceum) infestation of paintings lined with starch paste backings (linings) or the webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) infestation at the Museum of Carriages, both repeatedly occurring problems in the museum. With the help of the insect pest monitoring programs, these and other problems were found and the infested objects treated, usually with anoxia (nitrogen).

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Querner, P., Morelli, M., Oberthaler, E., Strolz, M., Schmitz Von Ledebur, K., Diehl, J., Zatschek, I., Fermi-Mebarek, A., Hölzl, R., Engelhardt, I., Krammer, H., & Fürnkranz, S. (2011). Ten years of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wien. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 43(2), 185–190. https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2011.185

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