Strategies and climate hopes for collection care and environments at the National Museum of the Philippines

Abstract

Tropical climates pose higher risks to museum collections and people, if not understood and managed. The higher temperatures and humidities experienced by memory institutions situated in the tropics, has long been a challenge as organisations engage with collection care beyond the universally claimed environmental controls and climate change. This study examines the influence of climate on collections belonging to the National Museum of the Philippines and the interpretation of material changes and collections at risk. Informing the paper is environmental data recorded from 2013 to 2024 from several floors and galleries from the National Museum of Anthropology and National Museum of Fine ..