Mounts & Care

Buying a Custom Sized Cardboard Tube to Roll a Canvas Painting in Art Museum

Hi Museum Trade Trbe, We were recently faced with the prospect of having to roll up a giant painting nine feet by 32 feet. I'm…

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Ever-Growing List of Awesome Books for Museum Handlers, Designers, Technicians, and Preparators

Hi Everyone, MuseumTrade.org is committed to compiling all the tips, tricks, successes, and yes, failures from museum pros into one searchable database. But sometimes…

Matt Isble

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Art Preparator & Art Handler Training Video: Succinct and Useful

Hi Museum Trade Folk, The Western Australian Museum put this video together and wow did they pack a ton into 5 minutes and 25 seconds.…

Matt Isble

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How-To: Resources for Basket Mounts

Historic baskets are both highly functional and highly artistic creations. They show incredible skill by the weaver, but they also tell us about larger community…

Jesse Dutton-Kenny

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The British Museum Conserves Dürer’s Work, Patiently, Methodically

Hi Gang, Here's a fascinating project from the British Museum, they conserved Dürer's Triumphal Arch. What time and care it took to clean this up.…

Matt Isble

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How to Make A Support Mount for a Bowl

Hi Gang,We can across this nice Using strips of mat board as a templating material, I laid out the fair curves of the proposed mount…

Matt Isble

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Silicone Mold Making, Resin and Foam Casting Tutorials

If you're ready to get into these types of mold making you've probably already watched 12 videos in anticipation of the project. For those of…

Dean Carbonara

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Maybe the White House Could Use Some Hinging Tissue?

In reading this Politico article by President Donald Trump signs a bill in the Oval Office on June 5. Trump's tendency to rip up documents…

Bradley B Jenkins

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One Way to Encourage (Demand) that Nothing is Stacked on Your Crate

You can spray paint the message all you want, but you'll never know, with one hundred percent certainty, that others will respect your message of…

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Buying a Custom Sized Cardboard Tube to Roll a Canvas Painting in Art Museum

Ever-Growing List of Awesome Books for Museum Handlers, Designers, Technicians, and Preparators

Art Preparator & Art Handler Training Video: Succinct and Useful

How-To: Resources for Basket Mounts

The British Museum Conserves Dürer’s Work, Patiently, Methodically

How to Make A Support Mount for a Bowl

Silicone Mold Making, Resin and Foam Casting Tutorials

Maybe the White House Could Use Some Hinging Tissue?

One Way to Encourage (Demand) that Nothing is Stacked on Your Crate

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