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The Preparator's Handbook
A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects
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eBook - ePub
The Preparator's Handbook
A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects
About this book
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.
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.
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Table of contents
- List of Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1:ââWhat Is a Preparator?
- Chapter 2:ââObject Handling: A Philosophical Approach
- Chapter 3:ââPreparation in Action: Pack It, but Donât Touch It; A Case Study of the Trope
- Chapter 4:ââPreparation Management
- Chapter 5:ââPreparation in Action: New Glass Now
- Chapter 6:ââTwo-Dimensional Object Preparation
- Chapter 7:ââPreparation in Action: Mounting Scrolls for Exhibition
- Chapter 8:ââThree-Dimensional Object Preparation
- Chapter 9:ââPreparation in Action: Simple Fosshape Supports for Textiles
- Chapter 10:âPreparation in Action: The Object Directs the Process; Creating Ethafoam Cradles for the Field Museumâs Vertebrate Paleontological Collection
- Chapter 11:âInstallation of Objects
- Chapter 12:âPreparation in Action: Exterior Sculpture at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park
- Chapter 13:âPractical Basics for Lighting, Audio, and Video
- Chapter 14:âPreparatorâs Resources
- About the Author