Title Wall Design Images
Title Wall Design Images
VIDEO REVIEW: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Getting the Work Ready for the Exhibit
Hello Trade Folk, Here’s a little behind the scenes for opening up crates, condition reporting, laying out the art, and hanging techniques. There’s a pretty wide swath of activities in this video, and like many of us, these peeps wear multiple hats in the same day. Side note: I did a LinkedIn survey about the “hats” we wear. Video is below if you want to jump to it. 1 hat, focused – 1...[Read More]
Do Not Touch Signage Example at LACMA
Yeah, Mr. MC Hammer said it best “You can’t touch this!”. How do you Do Not Touch? It’s an uphill battle, always. I was fortunate to get a tour (thank you Matt & Edwin) of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) last month and ran into this “do not touch” sign. My apologies for not being a crack reporter and investigating fully, there was so much...[Read More]
Custom Vinyl Letters for the Title Wall in Our Museum [Including a Failure]
Hi Everyone, I’m pretty sure this will be interesting to all experience levels. I turned up the volume and sped-up video (like 500 or 1,000 times faster) on the hours-long vinyl letter installation for our Elsa Rady title wall at the Crocker Art Museum. I actually had to talk pretty quickly on the Voiceover and there were a few tips I missed, but I’ll do more of these so you can...[Read More]
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. It certainly does not cover everything, but if you have new team member this would jump start their training. There is of course a ton that goes into being a museum professional (art handler, art preparator, museum technician, etc) and no one video can house it all...[Read More]
How Matt Construction is Building a Museum Using Augmented Reality. Yep Really.
Hi Museum Folk, I came across this and it blew my mind. I mean, in retrospect of course they are using augmented reality in building, but I hadn’t seen it yet. What makes this even more tangental to all of us is that Matt Construction is using it to build museums. Matt is a big supporter of museums, they’ve supported the Western Museums Association’s conference (WMA) for many yea...[Read More]
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Winner Revealed for the Summer 2021 Article Series [BONUS Tip at the End]
For those of you who prefer to read or can’t use volume right now, the transcript is below: Hey, everybody. Thanks for contributing to the survey, it was close for a while and one clearly took the survey in the end. It was great that everybody had their own sort of take on it and everybody kind of had their own passion, we’ll do another one. For now, the summer series is ...[Read More]
How a Professional Art Mover Ride Their Blanket Stack
Hey there you art, science, history, children’s preparator handler technicians. I saw this today, I think for the first time in all my years. It may be ordinary to some of you or an epiphany to others. In any case I thought I’d share this bit of behind the scenes at the museum magic. This simple board made this stack so firm and so compact. It was very nice tops around. I asked the tru...[Read More]
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 last year (2020), WoW. I’m sure they had many gala’s planned for the whole year, hopes, dreams, and fundraising dashed by COVID-19. Nonetheless, I’m super glad they released this beauty back in January. Look at all the craftsmanship and time it took. There are definitely some areas ...[Read More]
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 life. Baskets illuminate stories about the connections between peoples, as well as between people and their environments. Because of this tangible connection to daily life, baskets were one of the most commonly collected types of objects ...[Read More]