How tolerant are mounted trophies to large temperature swings

[Trap123]

I am planning on building a trophy room in my garage and I am wondering if I need to put a constant source of heat in there or if a wood stove would suffice as I live in upstate New York and the temperature fluctuations would be fairly extreme

 

[BRICKBURN]

Scary.
There is a very good reason that they have climate controls in Museums.

Extreme shifts in temperature and humidity are not good to preserve anything.

 

[Diamondhitch]

...wood stove...

Yikes!!! I wont even get into how many ways that is a bad idea.

...Extreme shifts in ... humidity ...

By far the worst culprit.

 

[harden]

It's not really the heat..or the cold that will effect them it's the humidity.
In fact THE CHANGE of it. keep any constant humidity and the piece will remain at that level of moisture.
I've stored mounts in storage units below freezing. And is AZ and the Reno heat.
WOOD stoves are the worse things you can have as a heat source as the humidity is VERY hard to control.
Leather will asbord water molecules in high humidity and release them in low.
That makes the skin 9 the leather) MOVE. Thus you get cracking with the swelling and shrinking.
IF the glues used during the mounting are done well, It helps.
I have clients that have humidity controlled trophy rooms and homes and after some 20 years they are PERFECT.

 

[Trap123]

thank you for the replies, I had not even considered the humidity aspect of it.I believe now I will include in the planning a more constant source of heat along with some device to control the humidity.thanks again.

 

[Trap123]

I am not really sure just yet how to control the humidity but my room will be fairly small at right around 500 square feet so it should not be too difficult to figure out

 

[Spooksar]

I asked a Taxidermist in Yellowknife Nunavet Canada this same question, his reply was the cold shift will not effect them. He doesn't recommend a wood stove thou, humidity for he is not a problem as I live in Northren Alberta.