Dopo la pandemia: la valorizzazione dei beni culturali nei contesti museali attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare innovativo

With the advent of the pandemic has become clear the close relationship between use of cultural heritage and air healthiness inside cultural sites. The care for the environment conservation of works of art has generated an interesting debate focused on the development of the concept of preventive conservation. Today this idea requires efforts not only from conservators, but also from architects, engineers, atmospheric physicists, chemists and all other professional and research figures who can make a contribution to this new post-pandemic challenge. This contribution illustrates the CapsulART research developed by an inter-university team, with the aim of finding an innovative and operational response to the challenges of the pandemic in the field of cultural heritage. The research, financed by MUR with a FISR call, aims to reconcile the requests for conservation of cultural heritage, comfort and health of visitors to cultural sites, contrasting the diffusion of pandemic risks. In order to do this, the point on which the research has focused is the control of microclimate and air quality. The research is born from the idea of seeing the different "sides" of a challenge from above to ensure that the research areas-technical physics, history of architecture, restoration and technology constructive-combine with each other to carry out a solution that can respond effectively to urgent needs. Has been developed the project of a simplified decompression chamber, which due to its characteristics resembles a capsule, configured as a technological gateway for access control. Its aim is not only to detect the temperature of visitors, as become common during the pandemic, but also to purify them from pollutants they bring with them. This aspect decreases the possibility that viruses carried by dust circulate in the environment. In a completely new way are brought into synergy actions that have an impact both on people's health and on the conservation of cultural heritage.