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Vermont Historical Society urges committee to fund Munter climate unit to protect rare collections
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Steve Perkins, executive director of the Vermont Historical Society, told the Senate Institutions committee that Section 16 of the capital bill would fund a Munter climate-control unit and related building repairs to protect irreplaceable archives and early film that are vulnerable to heat and humidity.
Steve Perkins, executive director of the Vermont Historical Society, told the Senate Institutions committee on Jan. 29 that the society’s capital request in Section 16 includes funding to replace the vault’s climate-control equipment with a Munter unit to protect fragile collections.
“This really is the last piece of critical HVAC equipment,” Perkins said, describing the Munter unit as a combined heating, cooling and very precise dehumidification/humidification system tailored for archival storage. He said the unit controls the vault’s environment for materials ranging from early film prints that are…
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