AIC's 45th Annual Meeting

The Military University Nueva Granada is working on the consolidation of a "Campus Ecomuseum” that seeks to integrate natural heritage and diverse collections in their care. Among these collections, we can find the National Museum of Telecommunications with objects such as telephones, television sets, radios, telegraph equipment, books, record players, and an audiovisual collection with vinyl records, photographs, slides, 8mm films, VHS, Betamax, among others. In the field of art, there are two and three dimensional works distributed in the Campus made with different techniques and available to the public. The University's Science laboratories keep the Natural History collections including the herbarium, mollusks, insects and vertebrate collections. This study aims to explore the microbial diversity living in our collections, through the isolation and identification of microorganisms that may be potential agents of deterioration, changing the structure and stability of the materials by enzymatic reactions and metabolites production that cause chemical and structural damage. The results of this study showed the relationship between the microorganisms isolated from the materials and from the storage or display environment. The final product is a visual guide that shows biodiversity inhabiting our collections at the microbial level, as tool for diagnosis and conservation.