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Vulnerability Assessment of Art Collections: the National Archaeological Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo (Italy)

Version 1 : Received: 16 September 2023 / Approved: 18 September 2023 / Online: 19 September 2023 (08:14:18 CEST)

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Azzara, R.M.; D’Ambrisi, A.; Tanganelli, M.; Trovatelli, F.; Vettori, N.; Viti, S. Vulnerability Assessment of Art Collections: The National Archaeological Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo (Italy). Buildings 2023, 13, 2701. Azzara, R.M.; D’Ambrisi, A.; Tanganelli, M.; Trovatelli, F.; Vettori, N.; Viti, S. Vulnerability Assessment of Art Collections: The National Archaeological Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo (Italy). Buildings 2023, 13, 2701.

Abstract

Artworks play a fundamental role in the cultural and economic asset of communities, enforcing their identity and helping the social integration. Despite their importance, they are not always adequately protected against degradation, which can be induced by the aging, atmospheric and human-induced occurrence, and catastrophic events. Earthquakes certainly represent one of the main risks for art goods; however, traffic, construction works, and shipment can also represent a threat for art goods. Therefore, the assessment of the vulnerability of art collection to dynamic excitations plays a crucial role in their conservation, and it has been collecting an increasing attention by researchers, academics, and Museums’ managers. This work focuses on the vulnerability of the art collections exhibited at the Museum “Gaio Cilnio Mecenate” in Arezzo. Namely, it aims at assessing the effective dynamic loading experienced by the artworks, which is a function of the dynamic propagation plaid by the foundation soil, by the building and by the displayers used for exhibition. In this study the dynamic properties of some of the displayers used for exhibiting the art collections are investigated by performing an experimental survey. The analysis of the experimental data lead to assess the proper frequencies of the displayers, which have been compared to the ones of the building and the foundation soil of the Museum.

Keywords

Art collections; displayer’s frequency; seismic vulnerability; seismic safety assessment; Museums content’s conservation; experimental dynamic monitoring

Subject

Engineering, Civil Engineering

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