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- 3-D Scanning on Loans for Your Incoming Exhibition Loans (Conference Session, 2017)
- May 15, 2021
- Mount makers at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have been working with 3-D scanning of museum loans to improve their mount making technique. This technology has helped reduce the amount of time an object is needed on premises for a fitting pr…
- Exhibition Copies & Beyond: Lending Time-Based Media (Conference Session, 2017)
- May 15, 2021
- Museums and commercial galleries are seeing a dramatic increase in the exhibition of time- based media as artists continue to embrace cutting-edge technology: digital video, sound, motion, custom software and electronics, and installation/site-specif…
- Deciphering Facility Reports (Conference Session, 2019)
- April 26, 2021
- Learn from a Registrar and Fire/Loss Engineer about how to decipher a standard Facility Report
- Lighten Up: Enhancing the Visitor Experience (Conference session, 2017)
- October 4, 2020
- Video from 2017 ARCS conference presentation, discusses lighting tactics and upgrades employed at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
- Latin America Shipping Q & A
- November 3, 2017
- This session will focus on shipping logistics to and from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela. Export and import licenses, trucking routes, restrictions, customs clearance, and governmental bureaucracy will be discussed.
- Nick Cave: Sojourn—Behind-the-Scenes Installation Footage
- June 6, 2013
- Installation footage from the 2013 Nick Cave exhibition at the Denver Art Museum
- Crating How-to Video
- April 3, 2012
- Crating Video by head of art packing department at the Art institute of Chicago
- Jim Nutt: Back to Front
- January 29, 2011
- A preparator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago shares notes artist Jim Nutt left on the back of his artworks.
- Newark Museum Official - Registrar Condition Reports for Gustav Stickley exhibition
- September 10, 2010
- Take a look as registrars from the Newark Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) work on condition reporting for the exhibition Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, opened September 15, 2010 at the Newark Museum.
- Preparing the gowns for the First Ladies Exhibition
- May 9, 2010
- Preparing the gowns for the First Ladies Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
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