Image Permanence Institute

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating sustainability through informed action.

At the Image Permanence Institute (IPI), we partner with libraries, archives, and museums to implement practical, sustainable environmental management strategies, informed by data driven decision making and aligned with building performance and mechanical system capabilities.

Through environmental monitoring, ongoing data analysis, and cross-team collaboration, institutions can reduce energy use while maintaining strong preservation environments.

A well-designed environmental monitoring program is the most important first step!

Interested in working with us? Visit the link in our bio to start the conversation.

IPI is currently accepting applications for its second Getty Global Art & Sustainability Fellow, a 2-year Fellowship funded by a grant from Getty.

For this Fellowship, we are seeking applications from candidates with an educational background in mechanical engineering, building physics, data science, preservation science, or related field. Applicants must demonstrate an interest in preservation science and cultural heritage preservation. The goal is to identify a Fellow with engineering skills who is interested in pursuing research on topics such as energy monitoring, the role collection materials can have on temperature and relative humidity management, or energy saving strategies/materials that have proved successful in other fields, but not yet tested or evaluated for collection environments.

Use the link in our bio to learn more

Curious about factors to consider when implementing seasonal relative humidity (RH) set points? Interested in potentially broadening the acceptable RH range in a high density storage facility? Need advice on avoiding RH extremes in historic houses?

This Spring, Emily Bernal - IPI’s Sustainable Preservation Specialist and Getty Art & Sustainability Fellow - will present three webinars on different approaches to sustainable management of relative humidity in collections spaces.

Swipe to see all three topics and dates. Visit the linktr.ee link in our bio to learn more and register!

We are thrilled to announce that the new version of eClimateNotebook went live today!

Many thanks to the super team of professionals at RIT - in IPI and ITS - who created the new version.

We look forward to supporting our users with their ongoing environmental monitoring needs and to the future development of eClimateNotebook.