Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - The museums in Bavaria face challenges in view of the high expenditure on air conditioning and heating due to the sharp rise in energy costs. "These additional costs must be included in the economic plans as best as possible and of course compensated for by savings in other areas," said Sven Friedrich, director of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, the German Press Agency in Nuremberg. As a result, there is less money for the actual museum work, which makes the houses less attractive.
Museums often don't have much leeway, because the temperature and humidity have to be balanced so that the works of art are not damaged. The Neues Museum in Nuremberg reduced the air conditioning by 3 degrees to 23 degrees. As a result, director Simone Schimpf had to renegotiate the contracts for all items on loan to the temporary exhibition. "We will have to agree on something new overall in the museum world," Schimpf concludes.
The Association of Bavarian Museums assumes that the conditions will hit small houses hard. They were already working to the limit to meet insurance and rental requirements, the organization recently noted.
