SECURITY
PROTECTING PRICELESS WORKS OF ART
Works of art are among the most coveted and treasured items requiring the protection of security systems, here is a case study from March Security Systems on the preservation of Picasso et al in the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland.
In February 2008, thieves targeted the E.G. Buhrle art museum in Zurich, Switzerland, and stole four precious works of art with an estimated value of $163 million. They included a Monet, a Degas, a Van Gogh and a Cezanne. Two years later, in May 2010, five paintings valued at $123 million were stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Among them were a Picasso, a Matisse and a Modigliani.
These and other notorious art thefts were on the minds of management at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland, 260 kilometres north of Helsinki, when work began on an ultra modern $24 million (€19 million) expansion in 2012.
The sleek wood and glass building that opened in the summer of 2014 boasts three exhibition spaces, a restaurant with a stunning view, a festival hall, a spacious museum shop, and the latest in oxygen deprivation technology for the storage and conservation of the museum’s art collection.
The legacy of paper mill owner and art collector Gösta Serlachius (1876-1942), the museum includes the architecturally stunning Pavilion housing the museum’s important collection of Finnish and other European masterpieces, and ‘Gustaf’, a historical museum that tells the story of the Finnish forestry industry.
SPECIFICATION The museum’s local security systems
integrator, KMV Turvapalvelut Oy, recommended a March Networks video surveillance solution based on previous experience with the technology and teamed up with March Networks’ certified provider
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The March Networks server- based system is powered by March Networks Command Professional video management software and records video from approximately 90 cameras across the location.
Thirty-six March Networks MegaPX WDR NanoDomes and WDR MiniDome Z cameras cover the interior of the Pavilion, capturing crystal-clear images during the day when bright sunlight streams through the glass-walled structure, as well as in near-dark conditions at night – a feature of the cameras’ wide dynamic range capability.
Video is captured by 16 analog cameras that were part of the museum’s previous video surveillance system.
“All we had to do was add some encoders,” said Roponen. “Being able to extend their life helped to stretch our budget while still providing us with the quality video we required.”
Tele-Projekti Oy to design a state-of- the-art, server-based system.
“Following a demonstration, we were satisfied that March Networks could provide us with the reliability and ease of use we were looking for,” said Gösta Serlachius Art Foundation CFO Juha Roponen.
Rounding out the system are 28 Infinova T Series bullet cameras that record activity in the sculpture park, the parking lot and other outdoor areas. Several Power-Over- Ethernet switches provide power to the cameras.
OUTCOMES Planning for the installation of the
cameras required more than the usual sensitivity to aesthetics and to satisfy the architects special brackets and camera housings were designed and manufactured to blend in with the architecture and the outdoor lighting poles.
Live video from selected cameras is available for viewing at the museum’s reception area, and authorised museum employees can now watch live or archived video from their own workstations using March Networks’ browser-based Command client.
“The system gives our customer service personnel awareness of where our visitors are in the museum, and in the event of a theft, vandalism or incident, it provides solid evidence of what has happened,” said Roponen.
Video is stored on an external hard disk array with archiving capacity of approximately six days – more than enough to investigate reported events.
Fortunately, Serlachius Museum has never experienced a headline grabbing art heist, and with its March Networks IP video surveillance solution and other security systems in place, museum management and the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation are confident that their valuable collections are safe and secure.
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