The Preparator's Handbook
A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects
Zusammenfassung
The Preparator’s Handbook :A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training.
This handbook explores, explains, and illustrates the basics for the preparation and installation professionals.
- practical, step-by-step guides that outline museum-standard procedures for most types of collection objects, including works on paper, archival volumes, and historic artifacts.
- templates and guides for presentation, preservation, and collection storage
- illustrated inventories of standard and specialized tools, materials and hardware
- the basics of lighting, audio, and video in installations.
- unique case-studies from working professionals for a wide-range of objects and installations including examples from the Field Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- Over 50 illustrations and photographs that accompany the written text.
This practical book is the first of its kind: a guide for novice or amateur collection and gallery professionals as well as an academic textbook for museum studies and fine art students.
Schlagworte
Museum Exhibits Museum Collections Museum Objects Museum Work Preparators Art Galleries Art Handling Exhibit Installations- 11–24 2 Object Handling 11–24
- 101–108 10 Preparation in Action 101–108
- 137–140 12 Preparation in Action 137–140
- 171–174 Index 171–174
- 175–176 About the Author 175–176