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The Difference Between Anti-Glare & Anti-Reflective Glass: How to Educate Your Customers

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Whether your customer is a small coffee shop operating a drive thru or a local grocer looking for digital wayfinding signage, you want to ensure that their brand is not only prominently displayed but is protected from external elements like ultraviolet radiation. Throughout your customers’ search for the right way to display their products, they […]

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Framing the Federalist Era: Preserving an 18th Century Map

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By Faith Walker, Director, The Great Bend Museum The Great Bend Museum recently completed the conservation and exhibition of its 1796 North American Land Company map, the first known map to detail the geography and development of the Mid-Ohio Valley in West Virginia. Thanks to the generous support of the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) and the

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Showcasing the 2024 Awardees of the Icon/Tru Vue Conservation and Exhibition Grant Scheme

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By Andrew Haycock, Tru Vue International Museum and Conservation Liaison for Northern and Southern Europe, Türkiye, and United Arab Emirates 2024 has been a good year for the awardees of our Tru Vue Conservation & Exhibition Grant Scheme in partnership with Icon. A fascinating range of projects from heritage institutions included conservation and display of a rare

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Paradise on view – A framing solution for L’Eden a panoramic wallpaper

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By Lisa Cumming, Paper Conservator, National Museums Scotland L’Eden is a magnificent panoramic wallpaper series manufactured in France in 1861 (first edition) by Jules Desfossé from a design by Joseph Fuchs. The National Museums Scotland (NMS) have in their collection twenty rolls of L’Eden of which four are on display within their Design for Living gallery at the

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Conservation and Display of a Rare Silk Doublet at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire

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By Emma Miller, Curator of Collections at Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust Ltd. Background For the team at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, the conservation of a rare silk doublet, last exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the 1990s, prompted a mission to display this fragile object and its matching trunkhose at Grimsthorpe in optimum

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In(FINI) Possibilities: Sustainable Approaches to Custom Framing

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By Zulfadhli Hilmi, Tru Vue International Museum & Conservation Liaison for Southeast Asia & Oceania Exploring the art scene across Australia, I have had the opportunity to meet some of the innovative minds in the framing industry. One such framer that is synonymous with museum framing is FINI frames in Melbourne currently helmed by two brothers, Jason

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Restoring Mid-Century Chicago Nightlife: 1967 Ellen Lanyon Painting Conserved and Exhibited for First Time in 50 Years

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By Kimberly Nichols, Director of Conservation Services, the Newberry Library The Newberry Library is an independent humanities research library in Chicago, IL, that cares for and makes freely accessible a vast collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, and other artifacts documenting more than six centuries of human experience. Among its holdings are several large paintings, including a

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Enhancing Building Aesthetics and Functionality with Anti-Reflective Glass

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Modern architecture continuously pushes the boundaries of design, often seeking a harmonious blend between structure and surroundings. However, a key challenge of this architectural vision lies in achieving transparency and unobstructed views, seamlessly connecting the interior with the exterior. In pursuit of this goal, architects and designers are turning more to anti-reflective glass, a specialized material

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Bristol Museum Collection Inspires Visitors with Refreshed Display

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By Helen Dowding, Paintings Conservator, and Julia Carver, Fine Art Curator, Bristol Museums In 2023, an outgoing loan of several paintings on display at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery provided an opportunity to revitalise a display of paintings in a key location in the museum building. One painting being loaned – The Last Moments of Raphael by Henry Nelson

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Preserving and Preparing French Daguerreotypes at the George Eastman Museum

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By Emily Phoenix, Conservation Associate and former Head Preparator, George Eastman Museum At the George Eastman Museum, a glazing solution utilizing Optium Museum Acrylic® as reproduction reverse-painted passe-partouts was fabricated to help preserve French daguerreotypes. This creative use of anti-reflective, modern glazing materials enhances the display of these objects, while providing a historically accurate and protective presentation. Applying

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And the Winners Are… Update on Icon / Tru Vue Conservation and Exhibition Grant Scheme

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By Mariana Salvarrey, MSc, Tru Vue International Museum and Conservation Liaison for Northern and Southern Europe and the United Arab Emirates 2023 was another successful year for the Icon / Tru Vue Conservation and Exhibition Grant Scheme with several projects coming to completion and a new round of awardees ready to start in 2024.  From toys to

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Gaining Optimal Transmission in Outdoor Sports Lighting Projects

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One evening in late Sept. 1892, spectators squinted through the dimly-lit fog to see a group of men jostling on the field below. It was the first recorded football game played at night. Edison’s carbon-thread incandescent lamps provided the light, but not particularly well. The game was stopped at the midway point due to low visibility.

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Your Best, Most Meaningful Gift Is Right At Your Finger Tips: Give A Custom-Framed Picture

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Holiday gifting season is fast approaching. As in years past, people face shopping for gifts with equal measures of excitement and dread. It’s exciting to anticipate the fun of sharing time and gifts with loved ones and friends during a happy celebration. Dread comes with fearing the gifts chosen might disappoint or not live up

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How Anti-Reflective Coatings Offer Enhanced Viewing Experiences for LEDs

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According to market and intelligence firm, Mordor Intelligence, “The US LED Market was valued at USD 9.89 billion in 2020 and expected to reach USD 17.06 billion by 2026 and to register a CAGR of 9.6% over the forecast period 2021 to 2026. The growing demand for energy-efficient lighting systems, declining prices of LED products, and

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Sustainability at Tru Vue

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Through responsible and conscientious procurement, consumption, and production, we’re working to make a positive impact on the planet, for today and for generations to come. Sustainability is nothing new for Tru Vue. Rather, it is woven into our Core Values, the principles that reflect who we are as an organization. From workplace environment to carbon

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Push for More Domestically Made Products & What it Means For Manufacturers

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For years now, politicians and businesses have put emphasis on buying domestically made products in an effort to strengthen the country’s manufacturing industry and to mitigate overseas outsourcing.  Here we’ll go over what it means to be Made in America and the recent implications it presents to American manufacturers. What Does it Mean to be Made in America?

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The Potential Use of Magnetic Cleaning Devices for Glass and Acrylic Display Cases

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By Gwen Spicer, conservator in private practice, and Yadin Larochette, Tru Vue museum and conservation liaison This article was first published in AIC News, Vol. 46(2), March 2021, pp. 34-36. It is reprinted here with permission. What are Magnetic Cleaning Devices? We first heard about the application of magnetic cleaning devices for cleaning display cases in an

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New works by the Austrian artist Günther Selichar for WERKSCHAU XXV: considerations of light, colour and direct print acrylic media.

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By Alisa Vincentelli, Tru Vue International Museum and Conservation Liaison ‘How blind is he who can’t see through a sieve’ Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Installation view from the exhibition “No Media Beyond This Point,” Fotogalerie Vienna, 2020. Photo: Michael Michlmayr. © Günther Selichar, Bildrecht, Wien 2020. From left to right: “WERKSCHAU”, “APPEAL”,

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A New Product That Can Simplify Your Next Glass Project: Tru-AR™ with Post-Temperable Coating

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Tru Vue has developed a new anti-reflective glass designed and coated to withstand the tough heat and process conditions of tempering furnaces. TRU-AR™ post temperable technical glass is offered in single sided and double sided coating to help simplify and streamline your glass projects. Available with or without EZ Clean top coat and always made

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EX-LIBRIS® Display cases for the preservation and exhibition of the founding documents of the City of Puebla.

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By Carlos Mijares, creator and owner of EX-LIBRIS® brand; CEO of Marco Polo. Archivo General Municipal de Puebla, Ayuntamiento de Puebla© 2018 In 2017, the council of the Mexican City of Puebla asked Carlos Mijares, creator and owner of the EX–LIBRIS® brand, to present a proposal for the conservation and exhibition of the City’s founding documents,

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