This work is licensed under ISSN: 1597 – 9928 Abulude et al. (2017) 12 Museums and Monu Abulude F.O 1,2 *, Ogu 1 Science and Educ 2 Department of Chemistry 3 National Commissio 4 Faculty of Agriculture, Unive * Corres The importance of museum not far-fetched. They provi civilizations and cultures o of the most urgent priorit methods of all monuments values. The Museum hou Artifacts in the museums free of dust and pollutant polluted. The pollutants ar Deterioration of museums progressive, a prolonged exp items. If problems due to po the pollutants and to measu collected, analyzed and the damage threshold levels. pollutants, damage and d monuments, instruments fo discussed. It is hoped that th in tackling pollution problem Keywords, Museums, mo Assessments, Nigeria. Received: 02July 2017 42 r a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unp Science and Education Developmen CONTINENTAL J. APPLIED SCIENCES 2 (3): 42 – 56 DOI: 10.5281/zenod Review Article numents in Nigeria: Reducing Pollution Da unmola D.N 3 , Alabi M.M 3 and Abdulrashe cation Development Institute, Akure, Ondo Sta y, Federal University of Technology, Minna, N on for Museum and Monuments, Akure, Ondo ersity of Ilorin Sugar Research Institute, Ilorin sponding author: walefut@gmail.com Abstract ms and monuments in Nigeria and elsewhere in t ide a rich evidence and concise information reg of different peoples. The safeguarding of monum ties, involved in the good preservation and c s and museums that have important artistic a uses monuments, which are either stored or need a good environment, which includes an ts. The air (outdoor and indoor) unfortunate re either from anthropogenic or non-anthropoge and monuments by the pollutants is usually posure can cause severe or minor damage to a w ollution are identified, what needed to be done i ure their quantity. To do this, samples of the are e results will be compared with published sta In this paper, an overview of the types of deterioration that are caused to people, ma or monitoring and steps to reduce the pollution this paper will inform or assist Nigerian museum ms likely to destroy the cultural heritage of the n onuments, Artifacts, pollutants, NO2, indoor Accepted: 12Nov 201 ported License nt Inst., Nigeria do.1162646 amage eed Y 2,4 ate. Niger State. o State. n, Kwara State. the world is garding old ments is one conservation and historic r exhibited. atmosphere ely, is often enic source. y slow and wide range of is to test for ea would be andards and f museums, aterials and n effects was m personnel nation. r, outdoor, 17