Getting Started in Mountmaking:
Techniques, Tools and Workspaces

WORKSHOP TOURS

Videos from IMF2020 coming soon!

BASIC MOUNTMAKING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

2020: Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums. 2020. Mount-Making for Beginners. A wonderful introductory overview of the process of mount-making for both collections and exhibitions by Dominique Alhambra, Jesse Dutton-Kenny and Ashley Muggli.

2016: Philip Brutz. 2016. Mount Making 101: How to Make a Threaded Anchor for Mounting Artifacts. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 5th Biennial Conference, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA.

2016: Jamie Hascall. 2016. Mountmaking: Materials Selection for Object Safety and Practicality. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 5th Biennial Conference, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA.

2014: McKenzie Lowry. 2014. Mountmaking as Preventative Conservation. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 4th Biennial Conference, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM USA.

2013: Jamie Hascall. 2013. “Receiver Systems for Object Mounts: A Design Concept for Safe Installation and Display Flexibility.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 51 (1): 47-50.

2014: BJ Farrar. 2014. Template Techniques for Mountmaking. YouTube video of a paper presented at the IMF 4th Biennial Conference, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM USA.

2014: Vincent Avalos. 2014. Physics of Mountmaking. Poster presented at the IMF 4th Biennial Conference, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM USA.