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LED Lighting in Today's Museums: Scott Rosenfeld
June 1, 2024
The Lunder Conservation Center held a one day symposium on March 1, 2013 on the use of LED lighting in museum collections. A series of presentations and panel discussions from museum and lighting specialists took place over the course of the day. Se…
Basic Condition Reporting
December 20, 2023
A good condition report is one of the cornerstones of documentation for any piece in a museum collection. Do you know the condition of the pieces in your collection? Can those pieces be exhibited or loaned? Do they need conservation? There are many r…
ARCSchat March 2022 Future-Proofing Intent in Time-Based Media
March 1, 2022
ARCSchat December 2021: Shippers Panel Pt. 2
December 7, 2021
3-D Scanning on Loans for Your Incoming Exhibition Loans (Conference Session, 2017)
May 15, 2021
Mount makers at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have been working with 3-D scanning of museum loans to improve their mount making technique. This technology has helped reduce the amount of time an object is needed on premises for a fitting pr…
Exhibition Copies & Beyond: Lending Time-Based Media (Conference Session, 2017)
May 15, 2021
Museums and commercial galleries are seeing a dramatic increase in the exhibition of time- based media as artists continue to embrace cutting-edge technology: digital video, sound, motion, custom software and electronics, and installation/site-specif…
Deciphering Facility Reports (Conference Session, 2019)
April 26, 2021
Learn from a Registrar and Fire/Loss Engineer about how to decipher a standard Facility Report
ARCSchat February 2, 2021: Installing the Butterfly Effect: Talking Collab w/ PACCIN & Art Pro Net
February 2, 2021
Now, more than ever, our profession requires unprecedented levels of collaboration and trust across staff, institutions, and professions in order to function. With this in mind, #ARCSchat collaborates with two other chats/podcasts representing the in…
ARCSchat January 19, 2021 - The Post-COVID19 Courier Part 2: The Full Chicago
January 19, 2021
Couriers are the moment's big unanswered question sitting on the tips of the tongue of museums all across the world. We dared to tackle it in December, but ended up with an onslaught of questions and ran out of time. As a result, we return to you on …
Lighten Up: Enhancing the Visitor Experience (Conference session, 2017)
October 4, 2020
Video from 2017 ARCS conference presentation, discusses lighting tactics and upgrades employed at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
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