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Guidelines for designing and building display cases

  • 1.  Guidelines for designing and building display cases

    Posted 21 minutes ago

    If you're about to design and build or buy new permanent or temporary display cases, the AIC Wiki site is hosting detailed guidelines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that can be adapted to your needs.  

    The Met undertook a major institutional effort to standardize and improve the design, construction, and procurement of permanent and temporary display cases, motivated by longstanding challenges in preventing chemical and physical risks to artwork and is sharing the results along with annual updates to the documents - now findable at the above link.

    A summary of this work was published as:
    Stephens, C.H, de Lapérouse, J.-F., Breitung, E.M., 2024. Temporary and Permanent Display Case Guidelines Developed Through Interdepartmental Collaborations at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 65(2):1-9. DOI:[10.1080/01971360.2024.2337983]

    For questions or information. Feel free to reach out to me at eric.breitung@metmuseum.org.



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    Eric Breitung
    Research Scientist
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Scientific Research
    New York NY
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