Resource Kit

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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…

ARCS Courier Decision Tool

January 2, 2024

ARCS has developed a Courier Decision Tool that promotes a series of guidelines for decision making when considering how to use a courier for the safe travel of objects during the time of COVID-19 and beyond. The Courier Decision Tool is a means to s…

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…

A Tale of Two Museums: Documenting "The Refusal of Time"

April 28, 2021

This discussion describes the process of developing the inter-institutional documentation of a co-owned artwork at the Met and SFMOMA, and the collaborative reality of co-owning, exhibiting, and preserving variable media arts installations.

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…

Acquiring, Exhibiting, and Caring for Contemporary Art Installations (Conference session, 2015)

November 15, 2015

Slides from 2015 ARCS presentation, highlights the challenges of recent large scale contemporary art installation management at The Museum of Modern Art

Nick Cave: Sojourn—Behind-the-Scenes Installation Footage

June 6, 2013

Installation footage from the 2013 Nick Cave exhibition at the Denver Art Museum

Jim Nutt: Back to Front

January 29, 2011

A preparator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago shares notes artist Jim Nutt left on the back of his artworks.

Preparing the gowns for the First Ladies Exhibition

May 9, 2010

Preparing the gowns for the First Ladies Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History