Hi Peter-
All of our painting bins (we don't have money or room for screens either) are built in-house. Smaller bins are made from MDO and painted with a vapor barrier, and padded on the bottom with tyvek covered ethafoam. For more elaborate frames we either build travel frames for storage, or pad them out further with ethafoam mounts. Our larger bins are skeleton frames made from 1 x 1" poplar, again painted with vapor barrier. They are also padded on the bottom with ethafoam (1/2" thickness is our norm), and we use heavy duty tyvek to cover the pads. Most of our larger contemporary works without frames have travel frames built for storage.
Angela Steinmetz
Collections Coordinator
Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204-2788
Phone: (720) 865-5023
Fax: (720) 865-5081
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Our archives possesses a number of paintings that need proper storage.
Unfortunately, we do not have space for the screens (as I believe they're
called) on which paintings are hung. We do have room for some kind of
slotted, upright shelving system--less than ideal no doubt but much better
than our present storage. I know this would result in the weight of the
artwork resting on the frame, but perhaps there is a way to provide a soft
cushion which would minimize that impact? Now that I think of it, I suppose
that the slots could have boards from which the paintings hang, which would
do away with that problem.
I was surprised that my searches for museum storage equipment yielded very
few useful results. Could anyone on the list point me in the right
direction, or suggest vendors who might have on-line sites with images of
some kind of upright storage system?
Thanks for any help,
Peter F. Schmid, CA
Asst. Archivist, Visual Resources
Providence Archives
4800 37th Avenue SW
Seattle, Washington 98126
Archives office: (206) 937-4600
Desk: (206) 923-4012
Fax: (206) 923-4001
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