The Eberswalde Museum and a parish in the Uckermark have shared the costs of combating wood pests in art and other objects.
Both wooden collection items and church inventory were massively infested with woodworm larvae.
Around 2,500 museum items were therefore brought inside a small church made of field stone, where the entire nave was then exposed to a poisonous gas that kills pests.
Prenzlau / Eberswalde - The Dresden company Groli Schädlingsbekütung GmbH has a certificate for this process.
Until 2020, museums used special nitrogen chambers to kill the pests in the event of woodworm infestation.
Last year, however, the European Union banned this uncertified process.
Since then, museums have been looking for new solutions to effectively combat the woodworm infestation that is common on old cultural assets, confirmed Susanne Köstering, managing director of the Brandenburg Museum Association.
dpa