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The Display of Parmigianino’s Double-Sided Drawings: Two New Plinths Designed for the Reopening of The Courtauld Gallery

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By Ketty Gottardo, Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings, and Kate Edmondson, Paper Conservator, The Courtauld After 3 years, The Courtauld reopened to the public in November 2021. The reopening followed a major transformation to restore its grandeur and create state-of-the-art facilities, which was supported by £9.5 million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and generous […]

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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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Disaster Recovery: Water Damage to Framed Works on Paper

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By Susan Duhl – Art Conservator/Collections Consultant When papers get wet, they become vulnerable and difficult to handle. High humidity and water result in expansion, distortion and degradation to sheet integrity. Media may bleed, blister and detach, and adhesives will release. As moisture wicks into papers, staining and “tidelines” result from discolored water-soluble components in

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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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Casa Mella-Russo: The Value in Conserving Cultural Heritage

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By Ruahidy Lombert, executive director of the Institute for Heritage Conservation and Research and president of the Patrimonium Foundation This article is written in both English and Spanish. Prior to the opening of Casa Mella Russo, and throughout the development of the project, an extensive network of activities was incorporated, with conservation being an essential component.

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Crossing Continents: Spanish masterpieces in Bishop Auckland

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By Caroline Smith, Preventive Conservator, and Sam Smith, Registrar, The Auckland Project In the English northern market town of Bishop Auckland, positioned high above the meandering River Wear, Auckland Castle was the seat of the Prince Bishops of Durham, a lineage of incredibly powerful figures. These Bishops were given exceptional powers by the Norman kings

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Creating Microclimate Casework to House Guitars at MoPOP

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By Liisa Spink, Sr. Manager, Institutional Giving, Museum of Pop Culture In 2021, thanks to a generous Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC)/Tru Vue® Conservation and Exhibition Grant, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) was able to build a guitar case under the guidance of conservator Lisa Duncan’s recommendations. This project provided museum staff with

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Close up view of the topographical pieces through Optium Museum Acrylic display case fabricated by Q Framing.

The Aesthetics of Presentation: A Reflection of Relationships and Roles in Art

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By Zudfadhli Hilmi, Tru Vue International Museum & Conservation Liaison for Southeast Asia & Oceania The much-anticipated launch of the inaugural ArtSG fair in Singapore, touted to be Southeast Asia’s biggest art fair, took place in January 2023. Tru Vue was honoured to have had the chance to collaborate with gallerist Richard Koh Fine Art,

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`One, Two, Three’ by Lenore Tawney on view after conservation, rehousing, and installation. Photo by Aslan Chalom, courtesy of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Sight Lines: Creating a Context for the Women Artists of “Inspired Encounters”

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By Katrina London, Manager of Collections and Curatorial Projects, The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art began in 2019 with an exercise of imagination. Standing in the modern art galleries of Kykuit,

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Integral to the New MUNCH Museum’s Visitor Experience, 500+ Works Fitted with New Frames, Keeping with Munch’s Style

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The MUNCH Museum moved from its long-time home to a newly constructed building located along the Olso waterfront. The doors to the new MUNCH Museum opened to the public for the first time on Oct. 22, 2021. The museum houses and displays the works of Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter who lived from 1863 to

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The RWA’s conservation of Dod Procter’s paintings reminds audiences how she challenged early 20th century conventions

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Celebrating conservation and care of collections during the pandemic, Tru Vue is proud to share a new series recognizing recipients of the Tru Vue Conservation and Exhibition Grant awarded by The Institute of Conservation (Icon). The goals of this grant program include supporting the preservation of collections; promoting diversity, equity and inclusion; and enabling objects

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Installation view at Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis (from left to right): Jules Kirschenbaum, Dark in the Forest, 1951–52 (post-treatment); Charles White, Mother Courage II, 1974; Charles White, Matriarch, 1967 (post-treatment); George Tooker, Voice II, 1972, and Self-Portrait, 1969 (both newly framed and glazed with Optium Museum Acrylic).

On the Road: Insights from a Travelling Exhibition

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By Jeremiah William McCarthy, Curator, National Academy of Design Travelling exhibitions organized from permanent collections provide significant opportunities for object care, scholarly research, and institutional visibility. In the times in which we find ourselves, museums across the country are grappling with the complications and questions—financial, logistical, and interpretive—raised by the pandemic and the national movement

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Lowell Observatory Captures Meteors Through Tru Vue® UltraVue® Laminated Glass

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Watching above Arizona’s Meteor Crater, a recently installed “fireball camera station” captures video from multiple cameras to create a mosaic of the night sky. The footage contributes to scientific research in detecting and understanding meteors, small particles of planetary debris that impact the Earth at speeds in excess of 20,000 miles per hour. As part

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Extraordinary Papercuts: Resolving a delicate double-sided ‘floating’ display method

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By Gillian Germain, Artist ‘Hopefully it will be Alright’ papercut artwork by Gill Germain, photographed on black velvet by Julian Germain. I saw the rings around Saturn Shocked I stand on the edge of silence A big breath before the jump Hopefully it will be Alright The artist Gillian Germain explains her inspirations, working process,

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A New Home for an Antique Architectural Model of the Roman Colosseum

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By Lucia Howard and David Weingarten, Piraneseum partners Piraneseum partners Lucia Howard and David Weingarten are architects; and co-founders, 40 years ago, of Ace Architects, a firm noted for buildings at once original and emphatic. Their work is widely published; and Lucia and David have twice been included in the AD100, Architectural Digest’s lineup of “the world’s foremost

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Reframing Thomas Prichard Rossiter’s “Palmy Days”

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By Emma Cotter, Project Director, Eli Wilner & Company, and Adam T. Erby, Curator of Fine and Decorative Arts, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Before the White House or the United States Capitol, George Washington’s Mount Vernon became an enduring symbol of the fledgling United States.  It was the home to which George Washington retired after his two

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Arizona State Museum’s Initiative to Save an American Treasure

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By Teresa Moreno, Associate Conservator and Head of Operations, and Jannelle Weakly, Curatorial Specialist, Senior, Photographic Collection, at the Arizona State Museum (ASM), The University of Arizona The Arizona State Museum (ASM), located at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, has launched an initiative to preserve one of America’s unparalleled collections of anthropological photographic materials. The collection

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Historic copperplate print mounted in a gold frame following conservation treatment.

Step by Step Process: Adapting an Existing Frame for Archival Re-use

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By Virginia Whelan, Textile Conservator in Private Practice Optium Museum Acrylic® A frame is both ornamental and functional, drawing the viewer’s attention to the artwork and offering protection from handling and ambient elements. With a few adjustments, most any older wooden frame—whether it is historic, original to the artwork, or otherwise—can be adapted for re-use to become archival as well as ornamental and functional. In this case study, the

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Close-up of fire-damaged frames from the LaSalle Bank Headquarters fire in 2004, showing melted and bowed Plexiglas glazing that protected the photographs inside.

Protecting Framed Works From Heat and Smoke

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By Hugh Phibbs, Preservation Consultant & April Hann Lanford, Vice President of Client Services at The Conservation Center Thankfully, fire is rarely seen in institutions that preserve our cultural treasures. Museums, archives and libraries are designed and operated to have minimal fire load. They also are monitored with utmost care. Unfortunately, private collections may not

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Detailed view of a conservator carefully using swabs to clean artifacts, removing fine soot residue from surfaces.

Disaster Recovery: Fire and Soot Damage

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By Susan Duhl – Art Conservator/Collections Consultant Swab cleaning collections after a furnace malfunction caused soot puff-back. Photo courtesy of Brian Howard and Associates. Fire-related disasters result in a complexity of problems from chemical and physical damages, and from the extreme sensitivity of handling soot-covered and burnt objects. Heat, charring, smoke, soot, ash, water and

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