How are you packing them for shipment? Crates? Cardboard boxes? It also depends on who is doing the shipping. For most commercial shippers, you have to make them pretty bombproof. Also, if they’re going to more than one venue, you want them to be easily re-packable. My inclination would be to sandwich them between two sheets of heavy cardboard slightly larger than your sheets, put those reinforcing corners on them that they use to ship things like mirrors and paintings, and then put the bubble wrap over that. With foam core, stiffness is the first consideration, then cushioning, and bubble wrap doesn’t provide stiffness. But it’s hard to say without seeing what sizes you’ve got. If they are all the same size, or just a couple different sizes, there’s safety in sandwiching like items together and then wrapping the sandwich. Is there a fine arts crater/shipper in Toronto who could advise you or do the job for you?

 

 

Anne,

 

That is definitely a concern of ours. We have fashioned a bubble wrap envelopes around the items to protect the corners and avoid scratches while in transit. Any suggestions for the backings?

 

 

 

Ellen, whatever you use, keep in mind that foam core dents very easily when it is dropped. You may, if you haven’t already, want to frame your panels in something sturdier to reinforce the edges. Chances are, if they’re traveling, something will be dropped at some point.

 

 

The Ontario Jewish Archives is currently working on a traveling exhibition project derived from a physical exhibition that we closed recently entitled “Facets of Fame: Portraits by Toronto Photographer Al Gilbert”. The display includes approximately 80 large scale panels and photographs mounted on foam core. What type of hooks should we affix to the back or system should we devise in order to make it easy for institutions to install in their galleries? The system should be as universal as possible, in order to accommodate as many institutions as we can using one system. I thought I would ask list serve members to help us out with this query, since we are relative novices in the area of travelling displays.

 

Ellen Scheinberg, Ph.D.

Director

Ontario Jewish Archives

National Centre for Jewish Heritage

UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

4600 Bathurst St.

Toronto, ON

M2R 3V2

(p) 416-635-2883 ext. 5187

(f) 416-849-1006

 

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