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De/Installation

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Excuse Our Mess, With a Sense of Humor

My 5 year old got a kick out of this changing exhibit. It's a bit nicer than doing nothing or even just a hand written…

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1280 989 Brad Jenkins

Painting Tip (newer buildings)

  DO YOUR WALLS HAVE A SMALL REVEAL AT THE BOTTOM? HERE’S A PAINTING TIP FOR QUICK AND QUALITY COVERAGE.   Whether you like it…

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1920 2560 Chris Martin

The Art of Installation

Four photos; of two museum preparators installing three Duane Hanson figures. The three Hanson sculptures, with their sawhorses and scaffolding are stationary, but the photos,…

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1944 2457 Diane Burk

The Battle Between Beautiful Terrazzo Floors and the Casework that Lay Upon it

Imagine pools of wax swooshing around on the floor, moving this way and that, usually in the dead of night so the buffed wax has…

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2560 1920 Matt Isble

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 certainty, that others will respect your message of…

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1200 837 Museum Trade

Adhesion Fundamentals – Tapes, Seals, Etc.

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…

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255 259 Museum Trade

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 easier. There are just a…

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2560 1920 Museum Trade
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