If you haven’t caught on yet, museums require special archival materials for virtually everything they store in their collection. As I mentioned previously, they use specific glue, tissue paper, labels and tags. All of the materials must be water soluble and if any pen is used (for example, to write the catalog number onto a tag that is sewn into a garment) it must all be used with acid-free and non-bleeding ink. Fancy stuff. Additionally, all of the garments and artifacts are stored in special boxes. Apparently they cost around $80 each – yikes!
If you’re curious where they get all of their stuff see this website:
Gaylord is supposed to be one of the leading producers of museum and archival materials. I never knew it but there is actually a whole industry of museum suppliers, go figure.
See you next time.
Allison
No comments:
Post a Comment