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Integral to the new MUNCH Museum’s visitor experience, 500+ works fitted with new frames, keeping with Munch’s style

Watch documentary film “New Frames for Munch” to learn more about the reframing project. 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....

A detail of the carved cork Colosseum model under Optium cover.

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

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...

Event Replay – Looking at Glazing: Finding the Best Solution to Protect Your Works of Art and Historic Artifacts

On Wednesday, March 25, 2020, Yadin Larochette, Tru Vue Museum and Conservation Liaison, presented “Looking at Glazing” to the FAIC Connecting to Collections Care Online Community. A replay of the event is now available for general viewing in the link below. Overview: Glazing, flat glass or acrylic fit in...

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“Culture Under Attack” Season

The 2019 season of exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London explore the impact of acts of war against what defines who we are – our culture. From the buildings we build for our communities to the tangible and intangible things we treasure as individuals. Culture Under Attack...

The reframed "Adoration of the Magi" in situ. Image: Studio8 Ltd.

Re-Framing of “Adoration of the Magi” Tapestry in Exeter College Chapel

For over six years, the Bursar at Oxford’s Exeter College, William Jensen, had been looking for a practical and affordable solution to re-glaze Adoration of the Magi, a tapestry hanging in their chapel. Challenges included the size of the tapestry (2.4m x 3.6m / 7 ft 10 in x 11 ft...

Preparing for the Victorian Radicals touring exhibition: Pre-Raphaelites on the Road

Part of Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) is home to the largest public Pre-Raphaelite collection in the world, numbering over 3000 paintings, drawings, prints and examples of decorative art and design. Toward the end of 2019, BMAG is scheduled to close for refurbishment for a...

New York Metamorphosis

New York Metamorphosis, a large-scale charcoal drawing on paper created by Norwegian-born artist Torild Stray, was acquired by the 9/11 Memorial Museum in 2017. Stray created the 60 in x 168 in (152.4 cm x 427 cm) panoramic drawing of New York City while an artist-in-residence at the famed...

Protecting Contemporary Wall Scrolls

Tru Vue 6mm Optium Museum Acrylic® oversized sheets have enabled the ideal combination of viewing experience and protection for the large scale, scroll mounted ink paintings in Ink Worlds, a special exhibition of contemporary ink paintings from 1960 to the present at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. ...

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation relies on Tru Vue® Optium® to protect & display recently reinstalled Japanese screen at Taliesin

Following its recent conservation, updated framing and new glazing, the Japanese screen “Pine Tree with Pheasants and Ducks” returns to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Drafting Studio at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. A National Historic Landmark that was once Wright’s home and architectural studio, Taliesin houses an extensive collection of works...