>>We are currently in the midst of the restoration of a Carnegie Library
>>building to serve as an extension to our museum. One of the rooms in
>>this building will become a gallery for hosting temporary and travelling
>>exhibitions. It was intended to line the walls of this gallery with Gib.
>>board to enable us to hang artworks. However I have now been told that
>>it is too expensive to proceed with batoning and lining the external
>>gallery walls. The plastered brickwork will be repaired and painted but
>>will remain unlined.
>
A museum I once worked for planned to place tightly woven commercial
carpeting on the walls, but the fire code inspectors nixed the idea: The
carpet had passed fire code tests for use on floors; nobody ever tested it
as a wall material.

Robert Baron