Microbial ecological dynamics, load and diversity of sculptured artworks in cross river University of Technology outdoor gallary

The microbial ecology of an outdoor artwork gallery was evaluated using basic microbiological standardize techniques. The sculptures made up of wood, cement and cast metal had a mean heterotrophic bacterial count of; wood (3.2×104 ), cement (4.3×104 ) and metal (2.5×104 ) while the fungal count were wood (4.6×104 ), cement (2.7×104 ) and metal (1.8×104 ) colonies forming unit per milliliter of the scrapped solutions.