All Art Museum Articles
The Working Side of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1928
Hi Gang, Here’s a really nice one from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrating 150 years l...[Read More]
How-To: Resources for Basket Mounts
Historic baskets are both highly functional and highly artistic creations. They show incredible skil...[Read More]
How Do You Create a Faux Brick Floor for a Fireplace?
What makes being an art preparator, museum technician, art handler so much fun is solving problems a...[Read More]
BASICS: Opening a Crate, a Few Solid Art Installer Tips
It’s been a long while since I, or anyone has added anything to the site. I thought I’d ...[Read More]
A Day in the Life from Denver Art Museum Registrars – As Told by NPR
Hi Gang, This may be something that you encounter everyday or maybe it’s brand new to you. Eit...[Read More]
The British Museum Conserves Dürer’s Work, Patiently, Methodically
Hi Gang, Here’s a fascinating project from the British Museum, they conserved Dürer’s Tr...[Read More]
Have a ♥️, Don’t Touch the Art (!)
Locked eyes on this sign as it was hanging in the second floor galleries of the Last Bookstore in Lo...[Read More]
Go Behind the Scenes with Creative Director in an Interactive Installation Workshop
Hello MuseumTrade community. I thought this was an insightful interview. Many of us don’t get ...[Read More]
How to Handle Ruth Asawa’s Hanging Metal Works
Ruth Asawa’s works are popular for a reason, they are ethereal and beautiful. They are ...[Read More]
Using Formable Plastic SUGRU to Enhance Museum Technician Tools
Hi Art Preparators, Art Handlers, Art Installers, Museum Technicians, etc… How do you sink and...[Read More]
The Beautiful Art of Lighting, The Renwick Gallery Transforms its Spaces
Lighting has a long history in museums and in the past 10 years it feels like its been on hyperdrive...[Read More]
The Story of How a de Kooning Painting Was Easily Stolen
A few tips can be found in this story, a few things you can do to prevent a similar occurrence at yo...[Read More]
A Cool Way to Fold a Box
Hi All, this one speaks loudest from it’s images. It’s fairly simple to make, does anyon...[Read More]
One Way to Improve a Security Hardware Tool
Hi All, Have you ever scraped the wall wheel taking a secured painting on or off the wall? Then you ...[Read More]
Hide A Cord Can be Busy or Ugly, Why Not Gaff the Crack
Hide a cord has it’s place in life and is an essential tool in the technicians toolbox, but it...[Read More]
Attention to Detail Makes Me Smile
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Painting Tip (newer buildings)
DO YOUR WALLS HAVE A SMALL REVEAL AT THE BOTTOM? HERE’S A PAINTING TIP FOR QUICK AND QUALITY ...[Read More]
The Head of a Bolt Could Make a Difference When Hanging on D-Rings
This is a short but sweet article on the little things one can do to make one’s life a little ...[Read More]
Tijana Cvetkovic Conserving Petrus van der Velden’s Marken Funeral Barge for Exhibition at Nga Toi Arts Te Papa
Here’s a short video published on Dec 12, 2013 depicting painting conservator Tijana Cvetkovic...[Read More]
The National Museum of Denmark Gives Insight into their Conservation Process with Nice Before and After Shots
Here’s a video published on May 6, 2013, this film offers insight into the conservators’...[Read More]
How to Make Paintable Wall Terminals for Stanchion Cord
Hi Everyone, Here’s a two-part series on stanchions. In this segment I’ll show you how w...[Read More]
Easy Museum Interactive Using Custom Plastic Puzzle
Hello MT Community, Here’s a very basic interactive for your museum: a plastic puzzle using a ...[Read More]
Rigging and Installing Richard Serra’s Delineator at MOMA
This story was covered by MOMA’s website, but I think Museum Trade is a great place to land al...[Read More]
Painting Walls without Streaks Using a Latex Extender Solution
We’ve had issues with streaking in out paint jobs. It’s not always obvious, sometimes i...[Read More]
Moving Several Dollies of Blue Blankets by Yourself
In our profession, time is often of the essence. If one person can do the same job as two or three o...[Read More]
Painting a Large Field of Cases in a Tight Space
Hello Everyone, Have you ever had to paint just a massive field of peds or cases? Do it all the time...[Read More]
Testing AWS upload to S3 – AQ resize not working?
This is the copy for this fake post. This is a test, only eat of the emergency broadcast system, thi...[Read More]
One Way to Display an Exhibit Catalog without Bolting it Down
It’s always nice to display the exhibit catalog if it’s available. It helps further cont...[Read More]
Cy Twombly’s Very Large TREATISE ON THE VEIL Being Installed in Time-Lapse
The time-lapse format is always fun, but I think we can gain insight as well. If you have an instal...[Read More]
Founding of Industrial Scale Fabrication of Art, Donald Lippincott was a True Pioneer
Large Scale: Lippincott Inc. by Jonathan Lippincott Before Lippincott, Inc. was founded in 1966, art...[Read More]
One Prototyping Form for an Art Museum Interactive and its Result
I thought I’d take a moment to share the tool we used to develop two interactives in our galle...[Read More]
Andy Goldsworth’s BURNT PATCH time-lapse installation at the San Jose Museum of Art
If you’re a fan of Andy Goldsworthy you will love this video. Notice how the install crew has...[Read More]
How to Hang a Consistent Centerline with an Uneven Floor, Lasers of Course!
It doesn’t matter how new your building is, the floor will be uneven from one side of the room...[Read More]
How to Print Labels in the Field with No Wi-fi and Just an iPhone or iPad
These directions will let you wirelessly print four images to a page of Avery 5168 WITHOUT the use o...[Read More]
Roger Murray Discussing Helmet Mount – 2015 International Mountmakers Forum in London
This is a nice video regarding the difficulty and solutions involved in making a mount strong enough...[Read More]
Issues and Solutions for Peripheral Strip Lighting Inside a Case.
Hello Trade Community, Here’s part one of a two part series. We’ve been given a budget t...[Read More]
How Do You Do Not Touch? Here’s One Way of Making Labels and Signage to Help Visitors Understand
If you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it a thousand times; Visitors molesting the objects ...[Read More]
How to Install Wall Mounted Shelves with a Semi-Hidden Metal Mount for Ceramic Pots
Insert copy here: These “Design Resources” are a series of short articles inte...[Read More]
Make your own Digital Picasso Head
I came across this today and the concept could be applied to other artists physically in the gallery...[Read More]
Framing Hardware Production Line
Here’s a quick image set of us getting through dozens of frames that we had to refinish. The ...[Read More]
Building a Faux Cabaret for the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition
Here’s a quick behind the scenes look at assembling a faux cabaret for the exhibition. Much of...[Read More]
Iceland and the Universal Museum
Iceland. By design, many of the hinderances that would keep one from making it all of the way to Ice...[Read More]
TEST POST – Visitor Signage at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Here are a couple of pictures I took at the museum to help those with young visitors understand the ...[Read More]
Gallery Interactive Game Encouraging Longer Looking and Use of Words
This is part of our Game On Series, a series of interactives throughout the museum spaces; this one ...[Read More]
Wrapping Ornate Frame for Short Distance Transport
We had to find a way to quickly wrap an old painting with its ornate frame for a 4 hour road trip. T...[Read More]
Installing Raw Canvas Painting Using Hook and Loop
As you can see from the pictures below, we were faced with a difficult installation. This piece is ...[Read More]