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Show off your “HOW-TOs”, innovations, tips, tricks, successes and yes, your failures. Learn from others or from other types of museums.

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…

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How Lumber was Reused After Framing Out a Giant Platform at the Oakland Museum of California

[vc_column width="1/3"] Rapid Building Shimming Skimming Spackling Painting Templating Installing Reuse Projects ALTAR PONY WALL BOTTOM DECK ANGLED DECK [vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column width="1/3"] Hello MuseumTrade art…

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Transporting an Unstretched Painting from Oakland to Sonora

[vc_column width="1/3"] Hustle Canvas Corners Blue Tape Innovations Anthony [vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column width="1/3"]Hi Everyone, Anthony has an excellent (road) trip for you, Oakland to Sonora. Every…

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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 and puzzles in not enough time. This was a…

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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 have all this extra time to dig…

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INSTRUCTIONS: 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 also fragile due to the nature of being woven…

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A Cool Way to Fold a Box

Hi All, this one speaks loudest from it's images. It's fairly simple to make, does anyone out there already have a template for this style…

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One Way to Improve a Security Hardware Tool (UPDATE: 2 Ways)

Hi All, Have you ever scraped the wall while taking a secured painting on or off the wall? Then you have to clean or touch…

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How to Make Custom Forms with Wet Gypsum

This guys is true craftsman. There must be 100 videos about this kind of work, but this one is simple and to the point and…

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