Tips & Solutions

Hey all, we have a couple of situations for displaying coins that we're trying to figure out and I wanted to see if anyone had any experience with something similar. At the moment we are hoping to display both sides with the coins sandwiched between acrylic. In one setting they would be static and shown vertically in the center of a case structure. In the other it would essentially be a flipable page that visitors could flip back and forth to view each side. The basic idea we were considering was just a sheet with the coins profile cut out and then a layer of acrylic on the front and back, but the two things we're concerned about and haven't come up with a proper solution to is then how do we secure this stack of acrylic so it can't be tampered with easily, but can be accessed by the prep…

Hey All, We're in the middle of a permanent collection reinstallation (early on enough that I'm still sane) and a portion of this will include a large salon wall of export porcelain. I'm getting started on tackling some of the bowls and plates which will need a fairly traditional brass mount. However that's not something anyone on our team has made previously, and looking throughout the museum, there aren't any examples of already made mounts to examine. I've been trying to find some resources as to how these are generally designed and executed but surprisingly coming up short on much other than some blurry images from videos of prior IMF conferences. Would anyone happen to have any source of info that may be helpful, or some shots of assembled (or disassembled) mounts that could shed some light on how I may want to proceed? At the moment I've just gotten started with doing…

Hi all,

first time poster here.

We have some lighting fixture in our older galleries that use 25watt par46 spots.

these lamps have been discontinued for sometime now. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good direct replacement for them.

I have never found an LED that can produce the same quality of spotlight and I'm not sure if there are any other halogens that will run in theses fixtures.

Any recommendations are helpful.

Does anyone have any clever, simple, archival solutions for hanging a salon style wall of many art postcards? Most of the cards are 4x6ish with some larger. They will each need to have some sort of "sneeze guard" for the public (acrylic/optium). They will also need to be secured on all sides. I would like the postcards to not be pressed against the acrylic so they might need a barrier like silicone release mylar? One idea is to secure them to the wall with something like L-pins. The problem is that it would require 6-8 L-pins to secure them on all sides and that might be too busy. Also strangely enough, sourcing small silver L-pins is quite impossible. They don't seem to be available anywhere. We are toying with magnets and standoffs, but everything seems to fall short. Any ideas welcome!