Follow a loan period.
Keep the dates, places and environmental context for incoming or outgoing loans together.
Temporary monitoring
Give temporary monitoring a beginning, an end and a purpose.
Campaigns bring the places, dates and environmental context for a loan, exhibition, investigation or other defined period together, without muddling them into normal day-to-day monitoring.
MONITORINGCampaignsTemporary context with a clear period, purpose and environmental record.
A temporary layer of context
Some monitoring has a reason and a date attached to it.
A new loan, a temporary exhibition or a short investigation may use the same rooms and sensors as everyday monitoring, but the evidence needs to remain understandable in that temporary context.
Keep temporary display monitoring distinct.
Give an exhibition its own period and record without replacing the normal monitoring of the gallery.
Give a question its own evidence trail.
Bring together a defined period of monitoring when the team is investigating a change or conservation concern.
Compare a focused period.
Use a Campaign where a particular season, building change or short-term study needs its own context.
What would you use a Campaign for?
The structure stays familiar while the context changes.
Choose an example to see how a Campaign keeps the temporary reason for monitoring visible alongside the environmental record.
LOAN
Roman Coin Loan
A defined monitoring period for a temporary loan, keeping the display location and agreed environmental context easy to find later.
- Period
- 1 October – 30 November 2026
- Places
- Special Exhibitions · Loan Case 3
- Environmental context
- Loan Conditions 2026
- Monitoring
- Loan Case Environmental Monitoring Plan
- Evidence
- Readings, excursions, Spot Records, checks and reports from the Campaign period
Campaigns and Monitoring Plans
Keep the temporary context separate from the monitoring routine.
A Campaign explains why this period matters. A Monitoring Plan explains how the monitoring is carried out. Keeping those jobs separate makes both easier to reuse and understand.
For temporary work, a linked Monitoring Plan can use the Campaign period as its active window, while its individual requirements still decide when checks and readings are expected.
Explore Monitoring Plans →CAMPAIGNRoman Coin LoanPurpose · places · dates · temporary context
linked context
MONITORING PLANLoan Case Environmental MonitoringRequirements · checks · responsibility · evidence
ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILELoan Conditions 2026Expected conditions remain in the Profile.
From start to finish
A Campaign gives temporary evidence a clear shape.
The collection may return to normal monitoring afterwards, but the Campaign record remains understandable as its own period.
Record the purpose, type and dates.
Connect the relevant gallery, store, room or monitoring point.
Keep the relevant Profile and Monitoring Plan connected to the period.
See readings, excursions and checks in the right temporary context.
Spot Records, notes and completed monitoring remain part of the record.
The Campaign can finish while its environmental history remains available for review and reporting.
Close the Campaign, keep the story
Temporary monitoring should still make sense years later.
Once the loan, exhibition or investigation is over, the useful part is not simply that a Campaign existed. It is being able to understand what was monitored, where, under which expectations and what happened during that period.
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Dates & purposeWhy the monitoring period existed and when it applied.
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Places & environmental contextWhere the Campaign applied and which Profile gave the readings meaning.
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Monitoring activityRelated plans, checks and Spot Records from the period.
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Environmental historyReadings and excursions that occurred while the Campaign was active.
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Response & reportingNotes, actions and reports that explain what happened next.