ALL De/Installation Articles
Show off your “HOW-TOs”, innovations, tips, tricks, successes and yes, your failures. Learn from others or from other types of museums.
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...[Read More]
Adhesion Fundamentals – Tapes, Seals, Etc.
Did you know that packing tape requires pressure to fully adhere? It’s a pressure sensitu=ive ...[Read More]
How to Paint a Sun Mural for a Solar Focused Exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Richmond
Here’s a quick time-lapse about how to paint a large sun on the wall dating back to 2009. This...[Read More]
Art Packers Hot Glue Gun Caddy on the Go
We had Ship Art International here the other day to crate our Claire Falkenstein and they whipped ou...[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]
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]
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]
The Dinosaurs Arrive and Unload at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
This is a fun little video and demonstrates how these creatures are wrapped and rigged. Not as much...[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]