Because sometimes you just need to nerd out! We bring you some of the best MuseumTrade worthy Instagram feeds. Admittedly these tend to be art museum focused, but we’d like to round this out with feeds from all […]

We found this on Fellers.com, but we’re guessing other places sell this as well. If you’re looking to install graphics that will last for some time, you might want to look into a test kit like this. It’s better to […]

UPDATE: ExhibitSEED does not appear to be a working website any longer.

EXHIBIT TIPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

This is an extended version of an article that appeared […]

I can’t say that I take it this far at home, but I surely relate to the look in the eyes of Flammy and Chip. Enjoy you preparator nerds!

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 DO NOT STACK. So what can you do, here’s one simple solution. […]

Here’s an interesting take on wildlife welfare. It demonstrates promising results and may have implications for other animal habitats.

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Did you know that packing tape requires pressure to fully adhere? It’s a pressure sensitu=ive tape and so are a lot of the products we use in the Museum Trade. I found a nice succinct description of what is […]

This is a short but sweet article on the little things one can do to make one’s life a little easier. There are just a ton of things that take very little time to do, but can mean the difference between “I’m on” […]

Here’s a short video published on Dec 12, 2013 depicting painting conservator Tijana Cvetkovic, she describes the conservation treatment required to prepare Petrus van der Velden’s Marken Funeral Barge for […]

Here’s a video published on May 6, 2013, this film offers insight into the conservators’ working process as they treat the paintings. See how the artworks are analyzed and cleaned, how flaking paint is r […]

Here’s a quick time-lapse about how to paint a large sun on the wall dating back to 2009. This is a very basic presentation of information, but somewhere, out there, among ALL the museums there is one that is […]

Not much to see here, I just thought it sounded dreamy, having the luxury of closing for 6 months.

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Here’s a two-part series on stanchions. In this segment I’ll show you how we make wall terminals for stanchion cord, the next will be a review of Line Logic’s stanchion set. It won’t matter […]

This story was covered by MOMA’s website, but I think Museum Trade is a great place to land all the stories from around the net, we’d like to be a one stop shop, so please let us know if you come across an […]

We’ve had issues with streaking in out paint jobs.  It’s not always obvious, sometimes it depends on the light, sometimes you need to be an installer to see it, but none the less it’s bothersome. I doesn’t matter […]

In our profession, time is often of the essence. If one person can do the same job as two or three others, you go for it (object safety being paramount of course). I was faced with getting a lot of blankets up to […]

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Have you ever had to paint just a massive field of peds or cases? Do it all the time you say? Yeah it happens and here’s a picture of it. This is more of a Preparator Culture type of article, […]

This is the copy for this fake post. This is a test, only eat of the emergency broadcast system, this is only a test, BeeeeeP.

It’s always nice to display the exhibit catalog if it’s available. It helps further contextualize the works and helps promote a product available in the store. Usually we use four pan head screws on the back cover […]

The time-lapse format is always fun, but I think we can gain insight as well.  If you have an installation for an artists and you can prepare yourself by looking at a time-lapse of the or a typical piece from […]